Humans did not arrive on most of the world's islands until relatively recently, making islands
favorable places for disentangling the timing and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic …

How communities assemble and restructure is of critical importance to ecological theory,
evolutionary theory, and conservation, but long-term perspectives on the patterns and …

The availability of genome data provides a unique window into speciation mechanisms with
virtually infinite amounts of information, providing a pathway for a better understanding of …

Amazon parrots stand out as one of the most illegally traded Psittacids in the neotropics.
However, the lack of effective tools for determining the geographical origin of confiscated …

Islands have been used as model systems for studies of speciation and extinction since
Darwin published his observations about finches found on the Galapagos. Amazon parrots …

Avian fossil records from across the Caribbean (Greater and Lesser Antilles) demonstrate
higher avian diversity prior to extinction events due to climate change at the end of the …

Uncovering the underlying mechanisms of speciation is perhaps the most significant quest
of evolutionary biology, and islands have been an essential source of observational as well …