Mantle-plume hotspot islands are a common focus of biogeographical studies, and models
for the growth of their biodiversity often incorporate aspects of their physical evolution. The …

Community trait assembly, the formation of distributions of phenotypic characteristics across
coexisting species, can occur via two main processes: filtering of trait distributions from the …

Current models of island biogeography treat endemic and non‐endemic species as if they
were functionally equivalent, focussing primarily on species richness. Thus, the functional …

Aim Wallacea is a global biodiversity hotspot and Sulawesi is the largest island in this
region, notable for a high proportion of endemic species. The Wakatobi archipelago, off the …

It seems intuitively obvious that species diversity promotes functional diversity: communities
with more plant species imply more varied plant leaf chemistry, more species of crops …

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 …

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 …

Islands have unique and disharmonic floras, resulting from the filtering effects of dispersal
and climate and, in some cases, their high evolutionary diversification rates. Due to their …

Depuis les premières observations de Darwin et Wallace, les radiations évolutives
présentes sur les archipels océaniques (ROAs) n'ont cessé d'être étudiées par la …

Mantle-plume hotspot islands are a common focus of biogeographical studies, and models
for the growth of their biodiversity often incorporate aspects of their physical evolution. The …