Abstract The Theory of Island Biogeography (TIB) predicts how area and isolation influence
species richness equilibrium on insular habitats. However, the TIB remains silent about …

Domestication might affect plant size. We investigated whether herbaceous crops are larger
than their wild progenitors, and the traits that influence size variation. We grew six crop …

The amphipod genus Niphargus comprises hundreds of eyeless and depigmented species
with narrow ranges in Western Palaearctic subterranean freshwaters. Niphargus hrabei and …

Because body size interacts with many fundamental biological properties of a species, body
size evolution can be an essential component of the generation and maintenance of …

The effect-response framework states that plant functional traits link the abiotic environment
to ecosystem functioning. One ecosystem property is the body size of the animals living in …

We developed new quantitative palaeoclimatic inference models based on the body-size
structure of mammal faunas from the Old World tropics and applied them to the Somosaguas …

Two main theories attempt to explain species coexistence: the neutral theory considers all
the species as equivalents so biodiversity is mainly regarded as a function of total available …

Ecological theory predicts that if animals with very similar dietary requirements inhabit the
same landscape, then they should avoid niche overlap by either exploiting food resources at …

Measures of biological or species diversity are central to ecology and conservation biology.
Although there are several commonly used indices, each has shortcomings and all vary in …

This study deals with population dynamics of Dociostaurus maroccanus species. The
distribution was analyzed for the first time using ecological indexes in Moroccan Middle …