… islands and mainlands, we compare the species richness of island floras with a global data
set of 970 mainland floras… island geology using non-spatial and spatial modelling techniques. …

… environmental characterization of the world’s islands and investigated how island characteristics
relate to the diversity of island floras at the global scale. First, I focused on past and pre- …

… of this approach with three case studies. In Chapter 2, I present the GIFT database, a novel
resource for macroecological analyses … I show that, on average, island floras are more similar …

… are intermediate between those observed on continents and oceanic islands (Table 2, Fig.
1) suggests that continental-island floras might have different origins, reflecting ancient …

… Here, we report on our recent efforts to mobilize this information for macroecological and
biogeographical analyses in the GIFT database, the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits. …

… If macroecological and multi-island comparative analyses … ecology on islands should
soon yield major breakthroughs. … island floras from a macroecological perspective. Ecol. Lett. …

… Although area and habitat heterogeneity are paramount for our understanding about island
biodiversity, they do not capture island dynamics. Recent models in island biogeography …

… The enigmas of oceanic island floras have long intrigued island biogeographers. Writing
over 150 years ago, about the floras of Macaronesia, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1867) observed in …

… islands (Kessler et al., 2011). For example, wind-dispersed pteridophytes are overrepresented
in island floras … validate this knowledge across islands at macroecological scales. Recent …

… In fact, through macroecological and biogeographical studies, … island flora and relate it to
plant trade-offs previously documented for the globe (Díaz et al., 2016). We find the island trait …