Comparative phylogeography of oceanic archipelagos: Hotspots for inferences of evolutionary process

KL Shaw, RG Gillespie - Proceedings of the National …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Remote island archipelagos offer superb opportunities to study the evolution of community
assembly because of their relatively young and simple communities where speciation …

The role of evolution in shaping ecological networks

ST Segar, TM Fayle, DS Srivastava… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
The structure of ecological networks reflects the evolutionary history of their biotic
components, and their dynamics are strongly driven by ecoevolutionary processes. Here, we …

A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

J Patiño, RJ Whittaker, PAV Borges… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad …

H Krehenwinkel, A Pomerantz, JB Henderson… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background In light of the current biodiversity crisis, DNA barcoding is developing into an
essential tool to quantify state shifts in global ecosystems. Current barcoding protocols often …

Global patterns and drivers of tree diversity integrated across a continuum of spatial grains

P Keil, JM Chase - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Controversy remains over what drives patterns in the variation of biodiversity across the
planet. The resolution is obscured by lack of data and mismatches in their spatial grain …

[HTML][HTML] Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

PAV Borges, P Cardoso, H Kreft, RJ Whittaker… - Biodiversity and …, 2018 - Springer
Islands harbour evolutionary and ecologically unique biota, which are currently
disproportionately threatened by a multitude of anthropogenic factors, including habitat loss …

[HTML][HTML] Hawai 'i forest review: synthesizing the ecology, evolution, and conservation of a model system

KE Barton, A Westerband, R Ostertag, E Stacy… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the most remote archipelago in the world, the Hawaiian Islands are home to a highly
endemic and disharmonic biota that has fascinated biologists for centuries. Forests are the …

[HTML][HTML] A network perspective for community assembly

LC Ponisio, FS Valdovinos, KT Allhoff… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Species interactions are responsible for many key mechanisms that govern the dynamics of
ecological communities. Variation in the way interactions are organized among species …

New directions in island biogeography

AMC Santos, R Field, RE Ricklefs - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene

NR Graham, DS Gruner, JY Lim… - Environmental …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Islands are widely considered to be model systems for studying fundamental questions in
ecology and evolutionary biology. The fundamental state factors that vary among island …