What Is A Native Plant?

Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin in Wild Flowers
Tags: Biologists, fashionable, geologic, hotspots, native, origin, plate tectonics, scientific, species

Biologists have always been intrigued by questions of origin and dispersal. How and why do species arise? How do they spread from their points of origin? Are there hotpots or centers of evolution and dispersal? Thus, through the years bio-geography has been a fertile field of scientific research and discourse, and the question of means of dispersal has long fueled vigorous debate and disagreement. Given present-day understanding of plate tectonics, consideration of plate movements over geologic time must now be added to the traditional arguments about long-distance dispersal versus incremental migration.