Beyond the traditional perception of islands as evolutionary sinks of biodiversityHow does the Macaronesian bryophyte flora contribute to this emerging paradigm in island biogeography?
- Felipe L. Monzón Cabrera
- Alain Vanderpoorten
- Jairo Patiño
ISSN: 0423-4804
Datum der Publikation: 2020
Nummer: 64
Seiten: 93-108
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Estudios Canarios: Anuario del Instituto de Estudios Canarios
Zusammenfassung
Historical biogeographical trajectories are unevenly known across insu- lar regions and taxonomic groups. While in the case ofvascular plants, the biogeo- graphical origins of a limited number of insular floras are relatively well known, there is still a long way to reach a similar knowledge for insular bryophyte floras. Most of this knowledge is highly concentrated in a few archipelagos distributed across the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, a region known as Macaronesia. The Ma- caronesian bryophyte flora has been thus the focus of a number of publications as- sessing the historical connectívíty between the insular and the continental settings. Based on this baseline, we revisit the traditional view that reverse colonization from islands to continental regions i nearly impossible from a review ofmounting evidence that out-of-Macaronesia dispersals to Europe and Northern Africa has taken place. Conservation implication and future research lines are discussed.