The importance of species traits for species distribution on oceanic islands.

ABSTRACT: Understanding species' ability to colonize new habitats is a key knowledge allowing us to predict species' survival in the changing landscapes. However, most studies exploring this topic observe distribution of species in landscapes which are under strong human influence being fragmented only recently and ignore the fact that the species distribution in these landscapes is far from equilibrium. Oceanic islands seem more appropriate systems for studying the relationship between species traits and its distribution as they are fragmented without human contribution and as they remained unchanged for a long evolutionary time. In our study we compared the values of dispersal as well as persistence traits among 18 species pairs from the Canary Islands differing in their distribution within the ar

SUBMITTER: Vazacova K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4086896 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature