Habitat type and dispersal mode underlie the capacity for plant migration across an intermittent seaway.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Investigating species distributions across geographic barriers is a commonly utilized method in biogeography to help understand the functional traits that allow plants to disperse successfully. Here the biogeographic pattern analysis approach is extended by using chloroplast DNA whole-genome 'mining' to examine the functional traits that have impacted the dispersal of widespread temperate forest species across an intermittent seaway, the 200 km wide Bass Strait of south-eastern Australia.

Methods

Multiple, co-distributed species of both dry and wet forests were sampled from five regions on either side of the Strait to obtain insights into past dispersal of these biomes via seed. Using a next-generation sequencing-based pool-seq method, the sharing of sing

SUBMITTER: Worth JRP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737502 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature