A major goal of island biogeography is to understand how island communities are
assembled over time. However, we know little about the influence of variable area and …

Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

Aim Island biogeography focuses on understanding the processes that underlie a set of well‐
described patterns on islands, but it lacks a unified theoretical framework for integrating …

Ecology letters (2011) 14: 552–560 Abstract Islands acquire species through immigration
and speciation. Models of island biogeography should capture both processes; however …

Islands have fascinated biologists since the days of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace and before, providing the inspiration for substantial theoretical development that …

Islands are particularly suited to testing hypotheses about the ecological and evolutionary
mechanisms underpinning community assembly. Yet the complex spatial arrangements of …

Island biogeography aims at inferring the processes that govern the assembly of
communities in space and time. Molecular phylogenies can tell us about the timings of …

BACKGROUND Ever since Darwin, natural scientists have turned to islands for inspiration
and for model systems. For the past half century, they have done so largely within the …

Islands have long provided model systems in which ecologists and evolutionary biologists
have developed, tested and refined models for species diversity (Whittaker and Fernández …

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 …