Island biogeography theory is fundamentally reliant on measuring the number of species per
island and hence has taxonomy at its foundation. Yet as a metric used in tests of the theory …

Aim To demonstrate a new and more general model of the species–area relationship that
builds on traditional models, but includes the provision that richness may vary independently …

MacArthur and Wilson's equilibrium theory is one of the most influential theories in ecology.
Although evolution on islands is to be important to island biodiversity, speciation has not …

Speciation continues to be one of the most intriguing phenomena in evolutionary biology;
even though our understanding of many of the mechanisms involved during speciation has …

Patterns of species diversity on islands have yielded significant insights into evolutionary
and ecological processes such as immigration, speciation and extinction. Island species …

Speciation has been considered as a primary process contributing to species diversity, but
its contribution to the diversity of local communities has not been fully appreciated. Based on …

Abstract Aim MacArthur and Wilson's dynamic equilibrium model of island biogeography
provides a powerful framework for understanding the ecological processes acting on insular …

The theory of island biogeography has played a pivotal role in the way ecologists view
communities. However, it does not account for exotic species explicitly, which limits its use …

Aim To investigate how plant diversity of whole islands ('gamma') is related to alpha and
beta diversity patterns among sampling plots within each island, thus exploring aspects of …

Aim Species diversity is distributed heterogeneously through space, for reasons that are
poorly understood. We tested three hypotheses to account for spatial variation in coniferous …