Species invasions provide numerous unplanned and frequently, but imperfectly, replicated
experiments that can be used to better understand the natural world. Classic studies by …

Biodiversity is comprised of genetic and phenotypic variation among individual organisms,
which might belong to the same species or to different species. Spatial patterns of …

Widespread recognition of the importance of biological studies at large spatial and temporal
scales, particularly in the face of many of the most pressing issues facing humanity, has …

The development of a more synthetic approach to understanding spatial patterns in
biogeography, particularly of the way in which these patterns interact, constitutes a major …

Oceanic islands are storehouses for unique creatures. Zoologists have long been fascinated
by island animals because they break all the rules. Speedy, nervous, little birds repeatedly …

Islands are fascinating natural laboratories of evolution. One much debated theme among
evolutionary ecologists is whether there is an 'island rule', the observation that large animals …

Aim To examine and visualize clines in size and shape of Cercopithecus aethiops Linneus,
1758 (Primate, Cercopithecidae) skulls, and to investigate environmental factors which …

Aim How do factors such as space, time, climate and other ecological drivers influence food
web structure and dynamics? Collections of well‐studied food webs and replicate food webs …

Aim To explore variation in the number of vertebrae in fishes in the context of Jordan's rule
and other ecogeographical rules. Location Global. Methods The study is based on literature …

Islands are noted for the occurrence of aberrant, endemic, and dwarfed taxa (the “island
effect”). Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages of Romania and elsewhere in Europe are …