Probable routes of colonization of the islands of the Azores : patterns and pro...

• Author(s): Ávila, Sérgio P.
• Date: 2005
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/911
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Macaronesia; Azores; Dispersion; Colonization; Speciation; Marine Fauna
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Congresso Português de Malacologia, 16 e 17 de Abril de 2005. The recent marine fauna of the Northeast Atlantic archipelagos of Macaronesia has very different biogeographical affinities (AVILA, 2000a; MALAQUIAS, 2001; AVILA & ALBERGARIA, 2002; AVILA & MALAQUIAS, 2003). Due to its geographical location, the archipelago of the Azores is of crucial importance to understand the patterns and processes of dispersion, colonization and speciation that happened in these islands.