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WAY TO BLOW. Colors show how winds connected Bouvet Island to neighboring locations from Feb. 1 to 10 in 2000. Winds easily give hitchhiking plant snippets a lift from the island to areas in the brightest peach zone but are less and less likely to carry plant material to the areas with progressively darker colors. Thus, distant islands may share many species. Credit: Á. Felicísimo
Found in: Botany

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