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JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 1426-1429Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12882
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Aldabra; Austronesian; giant tortoise; heterophylly; Mascarenes; radiocarbon dating; sea drift; Seychelles
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Evidence from DNA phylogeny, Plio-Pleistocene ocean currents, giant tortoise dispersal, evolution of plant defences, radiocarbon dates and archaeology indicates that the endemic giant tortoises on the Mascarenes and Seychelles colonized naturally and were not translocated there by humans.
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