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

Autor(en)
Thomas Denk, Fridgeir Grimsson, Reinhard Zetter
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Paläontologie
Externe Organisation(en)
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Journal
American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists
Band
97
Seiten
276-287
Anzahl der Seiten
12
ISSN
0002-9122
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0900195
Publikationsdatum
2010
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105118 Paläontologie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1ca84607-cbb2-4658-9c5f-08dcdc3bca6c