Islands in the desert: Environmental distribution modelling of endemic flora reveals the extent of Pleistocene tropical relict vegetation in southern Arabia
J. S. Borrell, G. Al Issaey, D. A. Lupton, T. Starnes, A. Al Hinai, S. Al Hatmi, R. A. Senior, T. Wilkinson, J. L. H. Milborrow, A. Stokes-Rees, A. Patzelt
The paper models environmental distribution of endemic plants in southern Arabia to identify a Pleistocene climate refugium in the Central Desert of Oman.
bioRxiv · Feb 28, 2019Ecology