Prevailing dogma asserts that the uplift of Tibet, the onset of the Asian monsoon system and
high biodiversity in southern Asia are linked, and that all occurred after 23 million years ago …

Remote island archipelagos offer superb opportunities to study the evolution of community
assembly because of their relatively young and simple communities where speciation …

Here, we expand on the term “ecomimicry” to be an umbrella concept for an approach to
adaptive ecosystem-based management of social-ecological systems that simultaneously …

Abstract The Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) is an iconic adaptive radiation.
However, like many island plant lineages, no fossils have been assigned to the clade. As a …

We investigated species diversity and distribution patterns of the marine red alga Portieria in
the Philippine archipelago. Species boundaries were tested based on mitochondrial, plastid …

As the most remote archipelago in the world, the Hawaiian Islands are home to a highly
endemic and disharmonic biota that has fascinated biologists for centuries. Forests are the …

Aim We constructed a series of high‐resolution palaeogeographical models for the
Galápagos archipelago for the last 700 kyr, accommodating thermal subsidence of the …

Evolutionary radiations on oceanic islands have fascinated biologists since Darwin's
exploration of the Galápagos archipelago [1, 2]. Island radiations can provide key insights …

Drosophila is the genus responsible for the birth of experimental genetics, but the taxonomy
of drosophilids is difficult because of the overwhelming diversity of the group. In this study …

In isolated oceanic islands, colonization patterns are often interpreted as resulting from
dispersal rather than vicariant events. Such inferences may not be appropriate when island …