Remote island archipelagos offer superb opportunities to study the evolution of community
assembly because of their relatively young and simple communities where speciation …

Aims The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island
Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review …

Research on the dynamics of biodiversity has progressed tremendously over recent years,
although in two separate directions–ecological, to determine change over space at a given …

The repeated evolution of phenotypes provides clear evidence for the role of natural
selection in driving evolutionary change. However, the evolutionary origin of repeated …

Aim Understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes together determine patterns
of biodiversity remains a central aim in biology. Guided by ecological theory, we use data …

The dynamic structure of ecological communities results from interactions among taxa that
change with shifts in species composition in space and time. However, our ability to study …

A period of isolation in allopatry typically precedes local adaptation and subsequent
divergence among lineages. Alternatively, locally adapted phenotypes may arise and persist …

Background The processes through which populations originate and diversify ecologically in
the initial stages of adaptive radiation are little understood because we lack information on …

Working in the Galápagos Islands and surrounding areas, we examined the relationship
between population structure, a precursor to allopatric speciation, in species of reef fishes …

The role of time is underrepresented in assessments of geodiversity. Hot spot islands are
unique systems to explore long-term geodiversity dynamics. The geodiversity dynamics of …