Land Bridge Travelers of the Tertiary: The Eastern Asian–Eastern North American Floristic Disjunction

摘要

The eastern Asian–eastern North American floristic disjunction is a curious phenomenon that has fascinated botanists for over 200 years: the existence of an entire catalog of species and genera shared by two vastly separated regions and found nowhere else. It has inspired generations of researchers and given impetus to such fields as biogeography and paleobotany. Scientists now recognize many different disjunct patterns around the world, but the eastern Asian–eastern North American was the first to be discovered, and remains the classic disjunction. It continues to stimulate new scientific papers, with each successive generation applying new research tools to its mysteries.