Birds helped acacia trees travel 18,000km from Hawaii to Réunion Islands
Island biogeography theory predicts that most island species originate from nearby mainland regions and therefore arrive through rare, long-distance dispersal events. How close islands are to mainland regions must therefore be an important factor in determining the make-up of island biotas.
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2 July 2014
