@article{998a95fd6a5f46b58fac0dd7399e13b8,
title = "Giant tortoises spread to western Indian Ocean islands by sea drift in pre-Holocene times, not by later human agency – response to Wilm{\'e} et al. (2016a)",
abstract = "Evidence from DNA phylogeny, Plio-Pleistocene ocean currents, giant tortoise dispersal, evolution of plant defences, radiocarbon dates and archaeology indicates that the endemic giant tortoises on the Mascarenes and Seychelles colonized naturally and were not translocated there by humans.",
keywords = "Aldabra, Austronesian, Mascarenes, Seychelles, giant tortoise, heterophylly, radiocarbon dating, sea drift",
author = "Cheke, {Anthony S.} and Miguel Pedrono and Roger Bour and Atholl Anderson and Christine Griffiths and Iverson, {John B.} and Hume, {Julian P.} and Martin Walsh",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1111/jbi.12882",
language = "English",
volume = "44",
pages = "1426--1429",
journal = "Journal of Biogeography",
issn = "0305-0270",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "6",
}