"Rafting event" redirects here. For using rafts as a sport or leisure activity, see Rafting.
The colonization pathways of Theridion grallator through the eastern Hawaii islands
Oceanic dispersal is a type of biological dispersal that occurs when terrestrial organisms transfer from one land mass to another by way of a sea crossing. Island hopping is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination. Often this occurs via large rafts of floating vegetation such as are sometimes seen floating down major rivers in the tropics and washing out to sea, occasionally with animals trapped on them.[1] Dispersal via such a raft is sometimes referred to as a rafting event.[2] Colonization of land masses by plants can also occur via long-distance oceanic dispersal of floating seeds.[3]
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Oceanicdispersal is a type of biological dispersal that occurs when terrestrial organisms transfer from one land mass to another by way of a sea crossing...
geologic formation of the Seychelles, the oceanic gaps between landmasses were much smaller, making oceanicdispersal more viable still. As such, a combination...
site, or from one breeding site to another Dispersal vector, forces that carry seeds for plants Oceanicdispersal, the movement of terrestrial organisms from...
breeding site ('natal dispersal'), as well as the movement from one breeding site to another ('breeding dispersal'). Dispersal is also used to describe...
While oceanicdispersal has been considered for the distribution of European hadrosaurs, intermittent land connections as a means of dispersal can not...
oceanic region. Because the movement of deep water in ocean basins is caused by density-driven forces and gravity, deep waters sink into deep ocean basins...
dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal...
The Western Oceanic languages is a linkage of Oceanic languages, proposed and studied by Ross (1988). They make up a majority of the Austronesian languages...
known European species. Further evidence for the oceanicdispersal as the model for lambeosaur dispersal also exists from the lack of more complete interchange...
is, nevertheless, the result of both Gondwanan rafting and later oceanicdispersal. During the Silurian, Gondwana extended from the Equator (Australia)...
taxa that may have dispersed by the same route (if not by flying or oceanicdispersal) are parrots, chelid turtles, and the extinct meiolaniid turtles....
tortoises. Part of the reason for this is that tortoises are good at oceanicdispersal. Despite being unable to swim, tortoises are able to survive long...
A dispersal vector is an agent of biological dispersal that moves a dispersal unit, or organism, away from its birth population to another location or...
worldwide. Several species of the genus have undergone long distance oceanicdispersal, such as Hesperocnide sandwicensis (native to Hawaii) and Urtica ferox...
islands as well as North America. It is thought that swimming led to oceanicdispersal of pilosans to the Greater Antilles by the Oligocene, and that the...
Sclater—that has since disappeared under the Indian Ocean. By the early 20th century, oceanicdispersal emerged as the most popular explanation for how lemurs...
last 2 million years (from its region of origin in Australia) via oceanicdispersal. Harrington and Gadek (2009) referred to D. viscosa as having "a distribution...
diversification of parrots supports a taxon pulse model with multiple trans-oceanicdispersal events and local radiations". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution...
led to speciation, then either a subsequent fall in sea level or oceanicdispersal by rafting reestablished contact to allow for natural hybridization...
vicariance, it was proposed that the Opluridae colonized Madagascar via oceanicdispersal, either directly from South America to Madagascar, or from South America...
Hutias colonized the islands of the Caribbean as far as the Bahamas by Oceanicdispersal from South America, reaching the Greater Antilles by the early Oligocene...
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approx. 20% of the water on...
Forstner, M. R. J.; Nussbaum, R. A. (2002). "Chameleon radiation by oceanicdispersal" (PDF). Nature. 415 (6873): 784–787. Bibcode:2002Natur.415..784R....
South Atlantic Ocean, and the archipelago of Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean (a limestone capped volcanic seamount). The few oceanic islands that are...
diversification of parrots supports a taxon pulse model with multiple trans-oceanicdispersal events and local radiations". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution...
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km2 (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately...
Indomalayan and Australasian realms populated entirely by aerial or oceanicdispersal (although defined here as part of the Australasian realm). Australia...
northward, the currents gradually changed, and by 20 mya the window for oceanicdispersal had closed, effectively isolating the lemurs and the rest of the terrestrial...
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