Special Issue: Introduction human colonization, environmental challenges, and conservation
responses. There is also much to say about recent advances in the understanding of the …

Subtropical islands are often viewed as refuges where Quaternary climatic shifts driving
global episodes of extinction were buffered. Island biodiversity, however, may have been …

Abstract Recently, the Canary Islands have become a focus for studies of the colonization
and the diversification of different organisms. Some authors have considered Canarian …

Oceanic islands are excellent systems for allowing biologists to test evolutionary hypotheses
due to their relative simplicity of habitats, naturally replicated study design and high levels of …

The establishment of European colonies across the world had important demographic
consequences because it brought together diverse and distant civilizations for the first time …

Island canaries (Serinus canaria) are characterised as a species living exclusively on North
Atlantic islands, mainly on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. Although they are very …

We use the molecular data available for the plant genera currently distributed in the
Canaries to propose a hypothetical framework that updates the Surfing Syngameon …

The Canarian archipelago has been sampling biodiversity from other areas, possibly since
shortly after the formation of its oldest islands in the Miocene (Fig. 12.1). The sources, and …

Lower C entral A merica (LCA) provides a geologically complex and dynamic, richly
biodiverse model for studying the recent assembly and diversification of a N eotropical biota …

Aim Closely related species are expected to be similar in their ecological attributes.
However, clades colonizing new environments and diversifying due to ecological processes …