CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF MEDITERRANEAN-CLIMATE EVERGREEN SCLEROPHYLL SHRUBS
EvolutionPublished 1 June 1970Open access
Harold A. Mooney, E. L. Dunn
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The isolation of these geographic areas and the almost complete taxonomic dissimilarity between their resident floras indicates that they have had distinct evolutionary histories, and the general life strategies of plants found in representative mediterranean climatic areas are similar.
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Harold A. Mooney, E. Lloyd Dunn; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF MEDITERRANEAN‐CLIMATE EVERGREEN SCLEROPHYLL SHRUBS, Evolution, Volume 24, Issue 2, 1 June 1970, Pa
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