When populations colonise new environments, they may be exposed to novel selection
pressures but also suffer from extensive genetic drift due to founder effects, small population …

Abstract The Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus) is the most threatened seabird in
Europe and a member of the most speciose group of pelagic seabirds, the order …

DNA barcoding often fails to identify species despite its undisputed advantages.
Hybridization, sample contamination, incomplete lineage sorting and nuclear copies of …

Shared ecological conditions encountered by species that colonize islands often lead to the
evolution of convergent phenotypes, commonly referred to as “island syndrome”. Reduced …

How various factors, including demography, recombination or genome duplication, may
impact the efficacy of natural selection and the burden of deleterious mutations, is a central …

Islands have been characterized as natural laboratories because of their distinct and often
identifiable role in promoting genetic variation and population differentiation, but they have …

The different evolutionary theories of senescence predict different directions for the
correlation between the population size and the intensity of senescence. Using simulations, I …

Genetic diversity and population structure can have important implications for the
management of threatened species. This is particularly true for small, isolated populations …

This chapter reviews the environmental, ecological and evolutionary factors determining the
age, origins, diversification and extinction of birds in Macaronesia, the biogeographic region …

How and why genetic diversity varies among species is a long-standing question in
evolutionary biology. Life history traits have been shown to explain a large part of observed …