Reid's Paradox of Rapid Plant Migration

1998/01/01 by James S. Clark, C. Fastie, G. C. Hurtt +10 · 4 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Botany and Plant Ecology Studies #Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

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Abstract

The oak, to gain its present most northerly position in North Britain after being driven out by the cold probably had to travel fully six hundred miles, and this without external aid would take something like a million years. (Reid 1899)

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