Plants dispersed to remote islands may leave their usual pollinators behind. They are faced
with extinction, inbreeding, or acceptance of other pollen vectors, possibly of the …

Current threats to the planet's biodiversity are unprecedented, and they particularly imperil
insular floras. In this investigation, we use the threat factors identified by the Millennium …

Islands have long been recognized as the best places on earth for investigating evolutionary
processes. Darwin (1859) formulated his ideas about natural selection and evolution during …

Oceanic islands and archipelagos are natural laboratories for investigating patterns and
processes of evolution. Islands change with the course of time, resulting in a dynamic …

Early botanists considered abiotic pollination to be primitive in angiosperms. But we now
deduce from studies of palaeoecology and of extant 'prim itive'angiosperms that animal …

I recognize at the outset that these objectives are very difficult to attain, and viii Preface might
be considered impractical or even idealistic given the present state of our knowledge. The …

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

Although biological invasions are currently recognized as being especially severe on
islands, little attention has been given to detecting parameters influencing this pattern. This …

The harsh climatic conditions and paucity of potential pollinators on Southern Ocean Islands
(SOIs; latitude 46° S–55° S) lead to the expectation that anemophily or self-fertilization are …

The evolution of self‐pollination has long been considered an adaptive strategy to cope with
low or variable pollinator service; however, alternative reproductive strategies, such as …