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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Bringing together results from over 30 years of research on the Juan Fernández Archipelago
off the coast of Chile, this book offers comprehensive coverage of the plants of these special …

Abstract The plant genus Tolpis (Asteraceae) has been the subject of several investigations
on the evolution of oceanic island plants. Its insular species were utilized in studies of …

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

On September 17, 1835, Charles Darwin first set foot on Chatham Island of the Galapagos
Archipelago. The diversity of obviously related birds which Darwin encountered laid much of …