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A picture of plant functional diversity on an oceanic island

  • RESEARCH BRIEFINGS
  • 12 July 2023

Extensive fieldwork reveals that island plants have similar functions to plants in other regions of the world, but that the island environment, along with biogeographical and evolutionary processes, filters the life-history characteristics and strategies of the plants, rendering the island flora functionally and ecologically distinct from others.

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