How do islands become green?

R Heleno, P Vargas - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Four long‐distance dispersal (LDD) modes have generally been considered to play
central roles in the colonization of islands by plants: anemochory (dispersal by wind) …

Long‐distance dispersal syndromes matter: diaspore–trait effect on shaping plant distribution across the Canary Islands

Y Arjona, M Nogales, R Heleno, P Vargas - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic islands emerge lifeless from the seafloor and are separated from continents by long
stretches of sea. Consequently, all their species had to overcome this stringent dispersal …

Long-distance dispersal to oceanic islands: success of plants with multiple diaspore specializations

P Vargas, Y Arjona, M Nogales, RH Heleno - AoB Plants, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A great number of scientific papers claim that angiosperm diversification is manifested by an
ample differentiation of diaspore traits favouring long-distance seed dispersal. Oceanic …

Colonization of the Galápagos Islands by plants with no specific syndromes for long‐distance dispersal: a new perspective

P Vargas, R Heleno, A Traveset, M Nogales - Ecography, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Since nobody has witnessed the arrival of early plant colonists on isolated islands, the
actual long‐distance dispersal (hereafter LDD) has historically been a matter of speculation …

Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect

IG Alsos, D Ehrich, PB Eidesen, H Solstad… - AoB Plants, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Long-distance dispersal (LDD) processes influence the founder effect on islands. We use
genetic data for 25 Atlantic species and similarities among regional floras to analyse …

Plant dispersal syndromes are unreliable, especially for predicting zoochory and long‐distance dispersal

AJ Green, C Baltzinger, Á Lovas‐Kiss - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plant dispersal syndromes are allocated based on diaspore morphology and used to predict
the dominant mechanisms of dispersal. Many authors assume that only angiosperms with …

Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants

V Hutsemékers, P Szövényi, AJ Shaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Islands have traditionally been considered as migratory and evolutionary dead ends for two
main reasons: island colonizers are typically assumed to lose their dispersal power, and …

The loss of dispersal on islands hypothesis revisited: Implementing phylogeography to investigate evolution of dispersal traits in Periploca (Apocynaceae)

C García‐Verdugo, M Mairal, P Monroy… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The loss of dispersal on islands hypothesis (LDIH) posits that wind‐dispersed plants
should exhibit reduced dispersal potential, particularly if island populations are old. In this …

Plant colonization across the Galápagos Islands: success of the sea dispersal syndrome

P Vargas, M Nogales, P Jaramillo… - Botanical Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
A new approach for investigating evidence for the capacity of plant colonization between
islands and the success of plant morphological traits associated with seed dispersal is …

Plant dispersal characteristics shape the relationship of diversity with area and isolation

A Walentowitz, C Troiano, JB Christiansen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The relation of plant dispersal syndromes with insular species richness patters remains
one of the challenges in island biogeography, especially as people have affected species …