Vicariance biogeography emerged several decades ago from the fusion of cladistics and
plate tectonics, and quickly came to dominate historical biogeography. The field has since …

Following several decades during which two dissimilar and incompatible models
(equilibrium and vicariance) dominated island biogeography, recent publications have …

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

Ecologists have, up to now, widely regarded colonization of islands from continents as a one-
way journey, mainly because of widely accepted assertions that less diverse island …

The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at
the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858) …

BACKGROUND Ever since Darwin, natural scientists have turned to islands for inspiration
and for model systems. For the past half century, they have done so largely within the …

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 …

The general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography (GDM) has added a new
dimension to theoretical island biogeography in recognizing that geological processes are …

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

GLOSSARY adaptive radiation Evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity within a
rapidly multiplying lineage. allopatric Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic …