Remote tropical island colonization does not preclude symbiotic specialists: new evidence of mycorrhizal specificity across the geographic distribution of the Hawaiian endemic orchid Anoectochilus sandvicensis
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DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy198
Abstract: Abstract Background and Aims For symbiotic organisms, their colonization and spread across remote oceanic islands should favour generalists. Plants that form obligate symbiotic associations with microbes dominate island ecosystems, but the relationship between island inhabitance… read more here.
Keywords: geographic distribution; distribution; mycorrhizal specificity; sandvicensis ... See more keywords