Aim Analyses of biogeographical patterns and macroecology of islands require large
datasets reporting the occurrence of species. The Mediterranean region is a biodiversity …

Biodiversity loss is a major challenge. Over the past century, the average rate of vertebrate
extinction has been about 100-fold higher than the estimated background rate and …

Island faunas can be characterized by gigantism in small animals and dwarfism in large
animals, but the extent to which this so-called 'island rule'provides a general explanation for …

Aim Clutch size is a key life‐history trait. In lizards, it ranges over two orders of magnitude.
The global drivers of spatial and phylogenetic variation in clutch have been extensively …

Aim Although the effects of life history traits on population density have been investigated
widely, how spatial environmental variation influences population density for a large range …

In tropical regions, many studies have focused on how vegetation and ecosystem processes
recover following the abandonment of anthropogenic activities, but less attention has been …

Chemical communication is probably the oldest, most ubiquitous form of information
exchange in the natural world, spanning all three domains of life. While excellent …

Aim Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes
from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and …

1. Tail autotomy is mainly considered an antipredator mechanism. Theory suggests that
predation pressure relaxes on islands, subsequently reducing autotomy rates. 2 …

Aim Birds have recently undergone a major extinction event which apparently is ongoing.
According to some estimates, humans have caused the extinction of up to 20% of the entire …