Evolution and community assembly across spatial scales

MA Leibold, L Govaert, N Loeuille… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The finding that adaptive evolution can often be substantial enough to alter ecological
dynamics challenges traditional views of community ecology that ignore evolution. Here, we …

Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa

RG Gillespie, GM Bennett, L De Meester… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary
process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing opinions concerning its …

Inter- and intra-island speciation and their morphological and ecological correlates in Aeonium (Crassulaceae), a species-rich Macaronesian radiation

TFE Messerschmid, S Abrahamczyk… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The most species-rich and ecologically diverse plant
radiation on the Canary Islands is the Aeonium alliance (Crassulaceae). In island radiations …

Does island ontogeny dictate the accumulation of both species richness and functional diversity?

AC Kraemer, YE Roell, NF Shoobs… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The accumulation of functional diversity in communities is poorly understood.
Conveniently, the general dynamic model of island biogeography (GDM) makes predictions …

Effect of topographic complexity on species richness in the Galápagos Islands

YE Roell, JG Phillips, CE Parent - Journal of Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The accumulation of species through time has been proposed to have a hump‐shaped
relationship on volcanic islands (highest species richness during intermediate stages of an …

Patterns of diversification of the operculate land snail genus Cyclophorus (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

T Hirano, T Saito, PV von Oheimb… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ryukyu Islands, an island chain in southwestern Japan, originated from land
masses that separated from the Eurasian continent due to the formation of sea barriers …

[HTML][HTML] Diversification within an oceanic Mediterranean island: Insights from a terrestrial isopod

AC Dimitriou, A Antoniou, I Alexiou… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding intra-island patterns of evolutionary divergence, including cases of cryptic
diversity, is a crucial step towards deciphering speciation processes. Cyprus is an oceanic …

Evolutionary history of inshore oceanic island land snails diversified in shell colour

S Ito, S Chiba, J Konuma - Journal of Biogeography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Oceanic islands provide an excellent opportunity to study the mode and tempo of
phenotypic evolution of terrestrial organisms. Many studies have focused on oceanic islands …

Snailed it! Inside the shell: Using augmented reality as a window into biodiversity

C Merino, C Iturbe-Sarunic, BG Miller… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Snails have occupied an important role in the ideology and religion of the ancient American
peoples, who considered them to be magical and used them in ritual ceremonies as …

Darwin's overlooked radiation: genomic evidence points to the early stages of a radiation in the Galápagos prickly pear cactus (Opuntia, Cactaceae)

F Zapata, J Cerca, D McCarney… - … Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In the Galápagos Islands, much attention has been devoted to the radiation of iconic species
like Darwin's finches, yet the Galápagos Islands offer an overlooked yet equally remarkable …