Episodic migration of oaks to Iceland: Evidence for a North Atlantic “land bridge” in the latest Miocene – 2010
Authors: Thomas Denk, Friðgeir Grímsson, Reinhard Zetter Dating the subsidence history of the North Atlantic Land Bridge (NALB) is crucial for understanding intercontinental disjunctions of northern temperate trees. Traditionally, the NALB has been assumed to have functioned as a corridor for plant migration only during the early Cenozoic, but recent findings of plant fossils and [...]