An unusual geological setting and a high level of endemism makes the Philippine islands of
great interest to biogeography. These islands lie adjacent to the continental (Sunda) shelf …

This special issue of Molecular Ecology celebrates the birth of phylogeography 10 years ago
(Avise et al. 1987). Because the discipline has deep roots in historical biogeography and …

Seamount systems that are geographically, hydrographically, topographically, and/or
genetically" isolated" are likely to have developed highly endemic taxa and ecosystems …

Recent phylogeographic studies have overturned three paradigms for the origins of marine
biodiversity.(i) Physical (allopatric) isolation is not the sole avenue for marine speciation …

The study of islands as model systems has played an important role in the development of
evolutionary and ecological theory. The 50th anniversary of MacArthur and Wilson's …

Long celebrated for its spectacular landscapes and strikingly high levels of endemic
biodiversity, the Philippines has been studied intensively by biogeographers for two …

BACKGROUND Ever since Darwin, natural scientists have turned to islands for inspiration
and for model systems. For the past half century, they have done so largely within the …

1) For any taxon higher than genus, the expected mean number of species per genus (E
(S/G)) for a randomly drawn subset is a non-decreasing function (approximately linear for …

In the biogeographical and taxonomical literature before the 1980s there was a wide
perception that widespread, often referred to as 'cosmopolitan', species were very common …

Studies on the distribution and evolution of organisms on oceanic islands have advanced
towards a dynamic perspective, where terrestrial endemicity results from island …