Abstract Aim Colonization of the Philippines from Taiwan or neighbouring areas of the Asian
mainland has been proposed as an important source of diversity for some plant and animal …

Repeated sea-level fluctuations during and prior to the Pleistocene had a dramatic effect on
the distribution of land and connection among islands between the Asian and Australian …

Background Closely related, ecologically similar species often have adjacent distributions,
suggesting competitive exclusion may contribute to the structure of some natural …

In order to identify the zoogeographic origin of shrews (genusCrocidura) living on the
oceanic island of Sulawesi, 15 taxa from Southeast Asia and 1 from Europe were examined …

Genetic variation of 20 species of shrews from the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo,
the Philippines and Sulawesi was assessed by allozyme electrophoresis at 32 loci …

After nearly a decade of field inventories in which we preserved voucher specimens of the
small terrestrial mammals of Sulawesi, we combined qualitative and quantitative analyses of …

Island systems are important models for evolutionary biology because they provide
convenient, discrete biogeographic units of study. Continental islands with a history of …

Recent molecular phylogenetic studies of Southeast Asian shrews (Crocidura) suggest that
Crocidura mindorus, as currently defined, is diphyletic. The species is reported from Mindoro …

We describe a new species of shrew (Soricomorpha, Soricidae, Crocidura) from Mt. Gede,
West Java, Indonesia. Relative to other Javan shrews, the new species is small with a …

White-toothed shrews of the genus Crocidura from the Philippine Islands were compared
with species from mainland Southeast Asia and the continental shelf islands of the Sunda …