Abstract The Middle to Late Ordovician was a time of profound biotic diversification,
paleoecological change, and major climate shifts. Yet studies examining speciation …

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) …

Abstract Aim The Mediterranean Basin is a global biodiversity hotspot and has one of the
longest histories of human–biota interactions. Islands host a large fraction of Mediterranean …

Dispersal is a fundamental ecological process, yet demonstrating the occurrence and
importance of long‐distance dispersal (LDD) remains difficult, having rarely been examined …

Oceanic islands play a central role in the study of evolution and island biogeography. The
Galapagos Islands are one of the most studied oceanic archipelagos but research has …

Aim Recent investigations on the floristic exchange between Southeast Asia and Australia
have shown a clear dispersal directionality bias (West to East) of wet‐adapted plant taxa …

Island biogeography theory has proved a robust approach to predicting island biodiversity
on the assumption of species equivalency. However, species differ in their grouping …

Clausiliidae is one of the most speciose and best-studied families of land snails. The family
contributes to land snail diversity on a global scale, with three main centres of diversity:(1) …

The emergence of the Isthmus of Panama is one of the most important events in recent
geological history, yet its timing and role in fundamental evolutionary processes remain …

Studying the biogeography of amphipod crustaceans is of interest because they play an
important role at lower trophic levels in ecosystems. Because they lack a planktonic larval …