Establishing the relationship between rates of change in species richness and biotic and
abiotic environmental change is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Although exquisite …

Insular adaptive radiations in which repeated bouts of diversification lead to phenotypically
similar sets of taxa serve to highlight predictability in the evolutionary process [1]. However …

The equilibrium theory of island biogeography (ETIB) was developed around the concept of
islands formed de novo, with species colonizing and over time reaching a balance between …

Research on the dynamics of biodiversity has progressed tremendously over recent years,
although in two separate directions–ecological, to determine change over space at a given …

The degree of similarity between the microbiotas of host species often mirrors the
phylogenetic proximity of the hosts. This pattern, referred to as phylosymbiosis, is …

Tradition holds that when you come across a body of fresh water in a secluded area and
everything is eerily still, the plants are yellowed, and the water covered with a greenish …

Species formation during adaptive radiation often occurs in the context of a changing
environment. The establishment and arrangement of populations, in space and time, sets up …

The diversification of a host lineage can be influenced by both the external environment and
its assemblage of microbes. Here, we use a young lineage of spiders, distributed along a …

A late Holocene but prehistoric carabid beetle fauna from the lowland Makauwahi Cave,
Kauai, is characterised. Seven extinct species–Blackburnia burneyi, B. cryptipes, B. godzilla …

The Hawaiian Islands offer a unique opportunity to test how changes in the properties of an
isolated ecosystem are propagated through the organisms that occur within that ecosystem …