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 …

Aim Biogeographical regions are the fundamental geographical units for grouping Earth's
biodiversity. Biogeographical regionalization has been demonstrated for many higher taxa …

Islands get more than their fair share of attention from biogeographers, macroecologists and
evolutionary biologists. Adding to this existing bias, I claim that oceanic islands, especially …

Abstract Reeve et al.(2016, Ecography, 39, 990–997) recently reported negative range–
abundance relationships in Indo‐Pacific bird communities and speculated that geographical …

Madagascar est une île continentale de l'Océan Indien, au large de l'Afrique. C'est
également un point chaud de biodiversité, hébergeant plus de 12 000 espèces de plantes …

Understanding patterns in species abundance, distribution, and assemblages is an
important component of biogeographical ecology, species diversity, and conservation …

Abstract Island Biogeography Theory (IBT) explains and quantifies broad-scale ecological
patterns among islands and isolated habitat patches. IBT predicts that the number of species …

Madagascar is a continental island in the Indian Ocean, near African coasts. It is also a
biodiversity hotspot, comprising more than 12,000 species of vascular plants and including …

One of the most repeated mantras in ecology is that islands are natural laboratories for
understanding biodiversity. And this is correct; there is no question about the value of the …

Biodiversity describes diversity at different levels of biological organisation, including:
habitat diversity; species diversity; and genetic diversity. Understanding the processes that …