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Nature 418, 381 (25 July 2002) | doi:10.1038/418381a
Biogeography: Springboards for springtails
Peter D. Moore
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Abstract
Travel to overseas destinations is possible even for certain tiny land invertebrates. Although they cannot fly, the ocean is not an insuperable barrier because they can survive for longish periods in sea water.
For small, flightless terrestrial organisms, the world is littered with barriers to dispersal. Deserts, oceans and mountain ranges present apparently insuperable limits to migration and spread for animals that are only a few millimetres in size and cannot fly.
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