Florida Museum of Natural History
Key points
- The Massif de la Hotte is a young, exceptionally biodiverse mountain range in southern Haiti that is home to an unusually large number of species that grow there and nowhere else.
- Scientists used a group of plants called melastomes as a case study to determine how, when and why this mountain range accumulated so many unique species.
- The results suggest that birds flying over the Caribbean Sea between eastern Cuba and southwest Hispaniola may be responsible for a significant proportion of the region's diversity.
- The study builds on decades of research, most notably that of the botanists Erik Ekman and Walter Judd.
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