Despite accelerating interest in the island syndrome, the evolutionary trajectories of island
flowers remain poorly understood. Here, we derive a new dataset from the Southwest Pacific …

Animals frequently evolve unique suites of traits on islands, but whether plants evolve
comparable island syndromes remains unresolved. Here, we test the prediction on the basis …

The island rule is a putative pattern in island evolution, where small species become larger
on islands and large species become smaller. Despite decades of study, a mechanistic …

The island rule predicts that small animals evolve to become larger on islands, while large
animals evolve to become smaller. It has been studied for over half a century, and its validity …

The pollination syndrome concept has provided powerful utility in understanding the
evolution and adaptation of floral traits. However, the utility of this conception has been …

Background: Reproduction in angiosperms involves either one or two parents, through
which selfed/cloned or outcrossed progeny is formed, respectively. Uniparental reproduction …

Several plant traits are known to evolve in predictable ways on islands. For example,
herbaceous species often evolve to become woody and species frequently evolve larger …

Despite representing a fraction of the global terrestrial surface area, oceanic islands are
disproportionately diverse in species, resulting from high rates of endemicity. Island plants …

Aim Flower traits are critical to the mutualistic networks that underpin ecosystem function.
However, the broad‐scale drivers of flower traits are unclear. Using the megadiverse islands …

Aim After colonising isolated islands, many types of plants and animals undergo extreme
morphological diversification. In stark contrast, other island taxa change more subtly and …