Genera of flowering plants that are endemic to oceanic islands are often of great biological
interest. These groups represent adaptive complexes that confer distinction to the islands or …

The floras and faunas of oceanic islands have fascinated evolutionary biologists since the
time of Darwin (1859) and Wallace (1880). Questions that first arose about island life are …

Oceanic islands offer special opportunities for understanding the patterns and processes of
evolution. The availability of molecular markers in recent decades has enhanced these …

Since the review of the reproductive biology of island plants by Ehrendorfer (1979) three
decades ago, there has been a veritable explosion of studies on plants of oceanic islands …

Oceanic islands have long been called natural laboratories for studying evolution because
they are geologically young, isolated, dynamic areas with diverse habitats over small spatial …

This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research,
examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British …

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 …

Few would argue that one of the important questions in evolutionary biology is how
morphologically distinguishable groups, commonly recognized as species, evolve or …

Plant species on oceanic islands comprise nearly 25% of described vascular plants on only
5% of the Earth's land surface yet are among the most rare and endangered plants …

Islands have, since the time of Darwin and Wallace, fascinated researchers and questions
relating to the origins of the native, often endemic, plants and animals continue to be a major …