Early recognition by Ball and Hooker in 1878 of plant back-colonization (boomerang) events from Macaronesia to Africa

Authors :: José María Fernández-Palacios
Robert J. Whittaker
Source :: Fernández-Palacios, J M & Whittaker, R J 2020, ' Early recognition by Ball and Hooker in 1878 of plant back-colonization (boomerang) events from Macaronesia to Africa ', Frontiers of Biogeography, vol. 12, no. 1, e45375 . https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG45375
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: California Digital Library (CDL), 2020.
Abstract: Author(s): Fernandez-Palacios, Jose Maria; Whittaker, Robert J. | Abstract: Recent work in island biogeography has shown that back-colonization (‘boomerang’ events) from islands to continents have occurred more frequently than previously understoodWe report possibly the earliest inference of this pattern, by John Ball and Joseph Dalton Hooker in a book published in 1878.

Subjects :: Global and Planetary Change
History
Ecology
Insular biogeography
Ball (bearing)
Colonization
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genealogy

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