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1 April 2009 Morphological Variation of Plants on the Uprising Islands of Northern Russia
Anna Serebryanaya, Alexey Shipunov
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Abstract

The purpose of our study was to test whether any significant morphological differences exist between island and mainland plant populations of the north European White Sea. Six polymorphic species were studied: Atriplex nudicaulis (Chenopodiaceae), Euphrasia wettsteinii (Orobanchaceae), Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae), Parnassia palustris (Parnassiaceae), Potentilla egedii (Rosaceae) and Rhodiola rosea (Crassulaceae). Based on the multivariate analyses of our data, we found 10 cases where differences between island and mainland populations are best explained by the existence of short-scale evolutionary processes. These results suggest that plant populations on islands of recent origin may display local morphological divergence in a short evolutionary time frame.

© Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board 2009
Anna Serebryanaya and Alexey Shipunov "Morphological Variation of Plants on the Uprising Islands of Northern Russia," Annales Botanici Fennici 46(2), 81-89, (1 April 2009). https://doi.org/10.5735/085.046.0201
Received: 20 May 2008; Accepted: 1 February 2009; Published: 1 April 2009
KEYWORDS
evolution
islands
plant morphology
variation
White Sea
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