The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands

S Nogué, AMC Santos, HJB Birks, S Björck… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Islands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities,
and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological …

The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos

SGA Flantua, A O'Dea, RE Onstein… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis

NM Nürk, HP Linder, RE Onstein… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a key issue in
evolutionary biology, ecology, and biogeography. Evolutionary rates are the net result of …

A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide

L Valente, AB Phillimore, M Melo, BH Warren… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Colonization, speciation and extinction are dynamic processes that influence global patterns
of species richness,,,,–. Island biogeography theory predicts that the contribution of these …

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Phylogenetic and functional clustering illustrate the roles of adaptive radiation and dispersal filtering in jointly shaping late‐Quaternary mammal assemblages on …

X Si, MW Cadotte, TJ Davies, A Antonelli… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Islands frequently harbour unique assemblages of species, yet their ecological roles and
differences are largely ignored in island biogeography studies. Here, we examine eco …

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism

SGA Flantua, D Payne, MK Borregaard… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this
similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of “true islands”(land …

[PDF][PDF] Physical geography of the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands

LMP Ceríaco, BS Santos, RF Lima… - Biodiversity of the …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Abstract The Gulf of Guinea, in the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, has three oceanic islands
that arose as part of the Cameroon Volcanic Line. From northeast to southwest these are …

Oscillayers: A dataset for the study of climatic oscillations over Plio‐Pleistocene time‐scales at high spatial‐temporal resolution

A Gamisch - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation In order to understand how species evolutionarily responded to Plio‐Pleistocene
climate oscillations (eg in terms of speciation, extinction, migration and adaptation), it is first …

Global raster dataset on historical coastline positions and shelf sea extents since the Last Glacial Maximum

J De Groeve, B Kusumoto, E Koene… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Historical changes in sea level caused shifting coastlines that affected the
distribution and evolution of marine and terrestrial biota. At the onset of the Last Glacial …