Paraphyly and Endemic Genera of Oceanic Islands: Implications for Conservation1

摘要: Abstract Genera of flowering plants that are endemic to oceanic islands often great biological interest. These groups represent adaptive complexes confer distinction the or archipelagos in which they found, and this results a focus on their conservation. In recent decades, numerous molecular phylogenetic (and other evolutionary) studies have been done island genera, hence providing much valuable new information relationships evolution groups. restricted derive evolutionarily from parental stocks usually continental regions. genera themselves successful, being particularly adept at dispersal, adaptation, speciation. immigrants isolated common ancestors large diverse parents directly within lineages themselves. If latter case derivatives treated generic level, then genus becomes parap...