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

Humans did not arrive on most of the world's islands until relatively recently, making islands
favorable places for disentangling the timing and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic …

Quaternary paleontological and archaeological evidence often is crucial for uncovering the
historical mechanisms shaping modern diversity and distributions. We take an …

Comparing distributional information derived from fossils with the modern distribution of
species, we summarize the changing bird communities of the Bahamian Archipelago across …

Since the late Pleistocene humans have caused the extinction of species across our planet.
Placing these extinct species in the tree of life with genetic data is essential to understanding …

The Cuban fossil avifauna, prior to this study, included 30 extinct and extirpated valid taxa. In
the present contribution, we review the fossil avifauna from Las Breas de San Felipe, and in …

No native species of tortoises (Chelonoidis spp.) live today in the Bahamian (Lucayan)
Archipelago (= The Bahamas+ The Turks and Caicos Islands), although a number of …

A long-standing hypothesis in evolutionary biology is that the evolution of resource
specialization can lead to an evolutionary dead end, where specialists have low …

All information relating to the Cuban palaeo-avifauna since the first published list in 1928 to
the present, is summarised and presented as a catalogue with commentary. I update data on …

Modern populations of the Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) occur locally from the
western half of North America through Central America and into South America, as well as in …