Traditional island biogeography has assumed that area size and remoteness are key factors
affecting species richness, but this theory has recently been challenged as increased human …

Speciation on islands, and particularly the divergence of species in situ, has long been
debated. Here, we present one of the first, complete assessments of the geographic modes …

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 …

Aim Disharmony is a key concept in island biology that describes the imbalance in the
representation of higher taxa on islands compared to their mainland source regions …

Islands are vulnerable ecosystems worldwide, increasingly exposed to human pressure,
global climate change and invasive species. Thus, understanding island species diversity is …

Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

Islands are ideal research models to study ecological processes, as they vary in size,
ecological conditions, and have clearly defined boundaries. Despite great advances in …

Isolation is a driving factor of species richness and other island community attributes. Most
empirical studies have investigated the effect of isolation measured as distance to the …

Current models of island biogeography treat endemic and non‐endemic species as if they
were functionally equivalent, focussing primarily on species richness. Thus, the functional …

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