The acquisition of evidence pertaining to island syndrome often relies on opportunistic
observations, yet prior researchers have gradually compiled a body of examples that …

Uniparental reproduction is advantageous when lack of mates limits outcrossing
opportunities in plants. Baker's law predicts an enrichment of uniparental reproduction in …

Aims: Islands are an ideal platform for investigating ecological processes that shape
biodiversity assemblages because of their distinct boundaries. An island's physical …

The island rule (1, 2) posits that large mainland species evolve to be small on islands, while
small mainland species evolve to be large. Biddick et al.(3) assess the signal of an island …

Societal Impact Statement We found evidence that larger fruited plant species are more
likely to be found in aseasonal wet areas of Malesia. These areas are likely to be impacted …

Background and Aims. This paper concludes our series of publications comparing island
and mainland speciation in European butterfly-orchids, by studying the morphology …

Species that are endemic to isolated islands often differ dramatically in size from their
mainland relatives, for reasons that are poorly understood. While decades of research have …

At their early age, a large proportion of island pools were a partial sampling of mainland
pools whatever islands are oceanic or fragments of the mainland. Through time …

Oceanic islands provide a good model for the study of species dispersal and evolution. We
focus here on the evolution of pollination modes of oceanic island bellflowers …

We assessed changes in phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm flora on six oceanic islands
located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, by comparing flora from two periods: the pre …