Plant Migration: The Dynamics of Geographic Patterning in Seed Plant SpeciesUsing cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. |
Contents
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PART II PREHISTORIC MIGRATIONS | 143 |
PART III MIGRATION AND EVOLUTION | 215 |
Appendix | 237 |
References | 249 |
Index to Genera | 277 |
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Abies abundant Alnus angiosperms aquatic areas arrived Australia Basin beach bird dispersal boreal Botanical burning Cakile Cakile edentula California changes climatic coast coastal colonization commonly conifers Cretaceous deciduous desert dicot disjunct distribution dominated dunes eastern North America Ecology elevation Europe evidently example exotic extinct Fagus fire regimes flora fossil record Full Glacial genera geographic Gondwanaland grass grassland grazing gymnosperms habitats herbs Holocene immigrants invaded islands lake Late Glacial Laurasia lava long-range dispersal mainly mangroves maritima Mauritius middens Miocene montane mountain native natural Neogene nineteenth century North America northern ocean Paleogene palynology patterns Picea pine Pinus pinyon pioneer plant migrations plant species Platanus Pleistocene pollen populations Postglacial present Proteaceae Quercus ranges region retreat riparian river ruderal sand savanna scrub sediment seed dispersal seed plants seedlings shrubs soil South southern spread survive taxa tree species tropical Tsuga tundra vegetation weed western widely wind woodland
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Page 5 - breaks in two. The bottom segment with half the seeds remains attached to the dying mother plant, which commonly gets buried in the sand; the top segment with the rest of the seeds is commonly washed away by storm waves to drift in ocean currents.
Page 3 - as any change in the distribution of successfully established mature plants as the years and generations pass. The term
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