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Although mountain environments may appear to be stable over centuries to millen-
nia, biogeographic corridors often disappear or become discontinuous in response to
long-term climate change. This results in
disjunct
(discontinuous) plant distributions
through the development of migration
filters
that require organisms have long-distance
dispersal capacities
in order to be successful migrants (Lomolino et al. 2005). In some
cases, however, unusual
conditions for dispersal,
such as high regional winds (e.g.,
Bonde 1969), or temporary corridors, such as periglacial bog complexes (Major and
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