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

The eastern Asian-eastern North American Horistic disjunction is a curious phenomenon that has fascinated botanists for over 200 years: the existence of an entire catalog of species and genera shared hy two vastly separated regions and found nowhere else.It has inspired generations of researchers and given impetus to such fields as hiogeography and paleobotany.Scientists now recognize many different disjunct patterns around the world, hut the eastern Asian-eastern North American was the first to he discovered, and