Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Authors: | P. Korall, Pryer K. M. |
Journal: | Journal of Biogeography |
Volume: | 41 |
Start Page: | 402 |
Pagination: | 402-413 |
Type of Article: | Botany |
Keywords: | fern distribution, Fern phylogeny |
Full Text | This study attempts to explain the present biogeography of Cyatheaceae, establishing a correlation between the global distribution of Cyatheaceae and the geological break up of ‘Gondwanan’ (the early conjoining of South America and Australasia), together with some limited transoceanic dispersal events. This breaking apart of the continents is known as ‘Vicariance’. These evolutionary events are relevant to the genus Cyathea, it being, for all intents and purposes the sole genus of the family Cyatheaceae. |
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