Fossil fuel consumption, luxurious lifestyles, population and economic growths are drivers of
climate change. Rampant rise in Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions drives the big wheel …

Earth's tropical ecosystems have witnessed several extinctions and a dramatic reduction of
the range and abundance of large reptile species, which is directly related to the rise of early …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

In the face of environmental uncertainty due to anthropogenic climate change, islands are at
the front lines of global change, threatened by sea level rise, habitat alteration, extinctions …

Projections of the sea level contribution from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (GrIS
and AIS) rely on atmospheric and oceanic drivers obtained from climate models. The Earth …

Ancient DNA of extinct species from the Pleistocene and Holocene has provided valuable
evolutionary insights. However, these are largely restricted to mammals and high latitudes …

Premise The Caribbean islands are in the top five biodiversity hotspots on the planet;
however, the biogeographic history of the seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) there is …

The highly interactive nature of predator-prey relationship is essential for ecosystem
conservation; predators have been extirpated, however, from entire ecosystems all over the …

The Caribbean archipelago is a hotspot of biodiversity characterized by a high rate of
extinction. Recent studies have examined these losses, but the causes of the Antillean Late …

Through unfamiliar and at times marginal environments, successful colonisation of the
Pacific Islands relied upon the introduction of domesticated flora and fauna as well as …