Episodic migration of oaks to Iceland: Evidence for a North Atlantic "land bridge" in the latest Miocene

Author(s)
Thomas Denk, Fridgeir Grimsson, Reinhard Zetter
Abstract

Dating the subsidence history of the North Atlantic Land Bridge (NALB) is crucial for understanding intercontinental disjunetions of northern temperat trees. Traditionally, the NALB has been assumed to have functioned as a corridor for plant migration only during the early Cenozoic, but recent findings of plant fossils and inferences from molecular studies are challenging this view. Here , we report dispersed pollen of Quercus from ....

Organisation(s)
Department of Palaeontology
External organisation(s)
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Journal
American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists
Volume
97
Pages
276-287
No. of pages
12
ISSN
0002-9122
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0900195
Publication date
2010
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105118 Palaeontology
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/1ca84607-cbb2-4658-9c5f-08dcdc3bca6c