Long-distance dispersal: a framework for hypothesis testing

Publication year: 2011 Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Available online 17 October 2011 Rosemary G. Gillespie, Bruce G. Baldwin, Jonathan M. Waters, Ceridwen I. Fraser, Raisa Nikula, … Tests of hypotheses about the biogeographical consequences of long-distance dispersal have long eluded biologists, largely because of the rarity and presumed unpredictability of such events. Here, we examine data for terrestrial (including littoral) organisms in the Pacific to show that knowledge of dispersal by wind, birds and oceanic drift or rafting, coupled with information about the natural environment and biology of the organisms, can be used to generate broad biogeographic predictions

Publication year: 2011 Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Available online 17 October 2011 Rosemary G. Gillespie, Bruce G. Baldwin, Jonathan M. Waters, Ceridwen I. Fraser, Raisa Nikula, … Tests of hypotheses about the biogeographical consequences of long-distance dispersal have long eluded biologists, largely because of the rarity and presumed unpredictability of such events. Here, we examine data for terrestrial (including littoral) organisms in the Pacific to show that knowledge of dispersal by wind, birds and oceanic drift or rafting, coupled with information about the natural environment and biology of the organisms, can be used to generate broad biogeographic predictions

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