Island biogeography: taking the long view of nature's laboratories

RJ Whittaker, JM Fernández-Palacios, TJ Matthews… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Ever since Darwin, natural scientists have turned to islands for inspiration
and for model systems. For the past half century, they have done so largely within the …

Macaronesia as a fruitful arena for ecology, evolution, and conservation biology

M Florencio, J Patiño, S Nogué, A Traveset… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research in Macaronesia has led to substantial advances in ecology, evolution and
conservation biology. We review the scientific developments achieved in this region, and …

A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide

L Valente, AB Phillimore, M Melo, BH Warren… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Colonization, speciation and extinction are dynamic processes that influence global patterns
of species richness,,,,–. Island biogeography theory predicts that the contribution of these …

Restructuring of the 'Macaronesia'biogeographic unit: A marine multi-taxon biogeographical approach

R Freitas, M Romeiras, L Silva, R Cordeiro… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary Islands and Cabo Verde are commonly
united under the term “Macaronesia”. This study investigates the coherency and validity of …

Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times

PM Raposeiro, A Hernández… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans have made such dramatic and permanent changes to Earth's landscapes that much
of it is now substantially and irreversibly altered from its preanthropogenic state. Remote …

The medial offshore record of explosive volcanism along the central to eastern Aegean Volcanic Arc: 2. Tephra ages and volumes, eruption magnitudes and marine …

S Kutterolf, A Freundt, TH Druitt… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We use the tephrostratigraphic framework along the Aegean Volcanic Arc established in
Part 1 of this contribution to determine hemipelagic sedimentation rates, calculate new …

[图书][B] Island biogeography: geo-environmental dynamics, ecology, evolution, human impact, and conservation

RJ Whittaker, JM Fernández-Palacios, TJ Matthews - 2023 - books.google.com
Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Mega-tsunami conglomerates and flank collapses of ocean island volcanoes

R Paris, RS Ramalho, J Madeira, S Ávila, SM May… - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Marine conglomerates at high elevation on the flanks of ocean islands are usually
interpreted as evidence of mega-tsunamis generated by volcano flank collapses, although …

Taking the pulse of Mars via dating of a plume-fed volcano

BE Cohen, DF Mark, WS Cassata, MR Lee… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Mars hosts the solar system's largest volcanoes. Although their size and impact crater
density indicate continued activity over billions of years, their formation rates are poorly …

Equilibrium bird species diversity in Atlantic islands

L Valente, JC Illera, K Havenstein, T Pallien… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Half a century ago, MacArthur and Wilson proposed that the number of species on islands
tends toward a dynamic equilibrium diversity around which species richness fluctuates [1] …