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 …

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

The intent of this series is to publish innovative studies in the field of comparative
evolutionary biology, especially by authors willing to introduce new ideas or to challenge or …

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 …

Ecologists have, up to now, widely regarded colonization of islands from continents as a one-
way journey, mainly because of widely accepted assertions that less diverse island …

Patterns of distribution and processes of differentiation have often been contrasted between
terrestrial and marine biotas. The islands of Oceania offer an excellent setting to explore this …

GLOSSARY adaptive radiation Evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity within a
rapidly multiplying lineage. allopatric Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic …

This study quantifies long–term landscape changes in the Hawaiian archipelago relating to
dispersal, speciation and extinction. Accounting for volcano growth, subsidence and …

By their very nature oceanic island ecosystems offer great opportunities for the study of
evolution and have for a long time been recognized as natural laboratories for studying …

Just as the factors responsible for the origin of an adaptation may not be responsible for its
maintenance, the processes currently operating in a community may not have been …