… Since reconstructing the evolutionary history of organisms … continental islands, this chapter
will focus on oceanic islands, … and plants were swept to the islands from the continent on …

… occurring on continents and on islands. Based on … plant reproductive traits have influenced
the evolution of generalist-bird-pollinated plants and draw conclusions on why so many plant …

… and events rather than evolutionary innovation, plays a … rapidly evolving DNA sequence
regions used to resolve plant … order for such rapidly evolving plant radiations will be difficult to …

… oceanic islands are quantitatively different from continental … equilibrium model of evolutionary
change. Endemics may be … immigration rate to islands (estimated at one plant species per …

… evolution of reduced dispersal in island plants. And lastly, my son Tim Cody has provided a
great deal of field assistance over the later years: sharp-eyed through fogs and over logs, he …

… oceanic and continental islands on a floristic basis, ideas on how age of island and distance
… proving ground for evolutionary processes on oceanic islands. Secondary woodiness in the …

… Evolutionary biologists and ecologists are increasingly turning to molecular phylogenetics
for studying oceanic island plant … to an island from neighbouring islands or a continental land …

… ’ to be found in the literature, from individual thistle plants (islands of sorts for the arthropods
… , and culture of islands and island states: continental solutions may be poorly transferable to …

… islands, where endemic herbaceous plants rarely figure, we should expect to find an illustration
of the original habit of growth of the plants in their continental … of the evolutionary stream, …

… evolution of the island biotas and the evolution and functioning of the … No complete inventory
of a large island's plants and … can have only disharmonic biotas; but old continental islands …