Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming
observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat …

Current threats to the planet's biodiversity are unprecedented, and they particularly imperil
insular floras. In this investigation, we use the threat factors identified by the Millennium …

For centuries, biogeographers have examined the factors that produce patterns of
biodiversity across regions. The study of islands has proved particularly fruitful and has led …

Climate and topography are among the most fundamental drivers of plant diversity. Here, we
assessed the importance of climate and topography in explaining diversity patterns of …

Recent climate projections indicate substantial environmental alterations in oceanic island
regions during the 21st century, setting up profound threats to insular floras. Inherent …

Detecting smaller hotspots within larger hotspots could be an essential tool to focus
conservation efforts. In this study, we identified hotspots at two scales of analysis within the …

New Caledonia has generally been considered a continental island, the biota of which
largely dates back to Gondwanan times owing to its geological origin and the presence of …

Islands have played a prominent role in evolutionary and ecological theory, centring the
theoretical framework for understanding biodiversity in terms of isolation and area and …

Islands harbour much of the world's threatened biodiversity. Recent work has highlighted
how it is not species diversity per se but rather the interactions between organisms that …

Human-driven extinctions can affect our understanding of evolution, through the nonrandom
loss of certain types of species. Here, we explore how knowledge of a major evolutionary …