Environmental and geomorphological drivers of frog diversity on islands worldwide vist.ly/4us4d #Anurans #IslandBiogeography
Relative importance of abiotic and biotic variables on two community-level (i.e. community-weighed mean [CWM]) plant functional traits: (a) the specific leaf area (SLA), (b) the leaf dry matter content (LDMC) and (c) the leaf thickness (LT).
Climate factors and island area drive leaf economic trait variation by altering plant species richness and soil properties on tropical islands.
#Growth_defenseTrade_off | #IslandBiogeography | #LeafDryMatterContent | #PlantDiversity | #SoilNutrients | #SpecificLeafArea
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
🌿🏝️Disentangling the relative roles of biased colonization and in situ evolution in driving the island syndrome in Coprosma (Rubiaceae)
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#AncestralReconstruction #CorrelatedEvolution #IslandBiogeography #IslandSyndrome #PlantEvolution #StructureEquationModelling
21 R simsii var putoense populations form coastal-island genetic groups with incomplete divergence, moderate genetic diversity, and ongoing gene flow; island group exhibits stronger selection pressure and inbreeding
🏝️ #islandbiogeography
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
#SPEetologia
#SPEmembers
#IslandBiogeography #BirdMorphology #Evolution #LocomotionTraits #EndemicBirds #TerrestrialAdaptation #AvianBiology #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology #MorphologicalEvolution
17-Oct-2025
New study overturns long-held assumptions about how plants spread to #islands
A new study from #Iceland’s #Surtsey island shows that #birds carried most of the #plants that colonised the island, challenging long-held beliefs that seed or fruit shape determines how plants spread […]
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So happy to share my first PhD chapter! First digital brain endocast of Hoplitomeryx matthei - a strange five-horned ruminant from Gargano paleo-island (Italy).
Full study: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
#Paleontology #Paleoneurology #IslandBiogeography
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Climate factors and island area drive leaf economic trait variation by altering plant species richness and soil properties on tropical islands
#Growth-defenseTrade-off | #IslandBiogeography | #LeafDryMatterContent
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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Imperial shags on Saunders Island in the Falklands #birds #seabirds #shags #falklandislands #nature #cormorants #seabirdgroup #westfalkland #southatlantic #rspb #natgeo #imperialshag #saundersisland #islands #islandbiogeography
Imperial shags fighting over nest material on New Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #shags #falklandislands #nature #cormorants #seabirdgroup #westfalkland #southatlantic #rspb #natgeo #imperialshag #newisland #islands #islandbiogeography
Incoming imperial shag on New Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #shags #falklandislands #nature #cormorants #seabirdgroup #westfalkland #southatlantic #rspb #natgeo #imperialshag #newisland #islands #islandbiogeography
Portrait of an imperial shag on New Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #shags #falklandislands #nature #cormorants #seabirdgroup #westfalkland #southatlantic #rspb #natgeo #imperialshag #newisland #islands #islandbiogeography
The was an excellent article sometime back in Geography Review about bracken. The squirrels on Flathom have cancer but not Steepholm [or the other way round] due to the presence of cancer - if I remember correctly #islandBiogeography
Incoming imperial shag on New Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #shags #falklandislands #nature #cormorants #seabirdgroup #westfalkland #southatlantic #rspb #natgeo #imperialshag #newisland #islands #islandbiogeography
Incoming imperial shag on New Island in the Falkland Islands #birds #seabirds #shags #falklandislands #nature #cormorants #seabirdgroup #westfalkland #southatlantic #rspb #natgeo #imperialshag #newisland #islands #islandbiogeography
3️⃣ 🏝️🇮🇩 The islands Java, Maluku & Sumatra act as Corridors, 🔗 connecting species across the region. Meanwhile, 🦘 Australia, 🇮🇳 India, 🇵🇭 the Philippines are Accumulators, collecting diversity from elsewhere! 🌿 #IslandBiogeography
This cheerful Pygmy Mammoth is really happy that's it's #fossilfriday. #MammothSite #islandbiogeography (this specimen was excavated from Santa Rosa in 1994 by Larry Agenbroad, then dir of Mammoth Site).
I met EO Wilson in Harvard when I was 23 years old. Imagine the impression he made in such a young aspiring scientist. His work in #Islandbiogeography, among others still accurately predicts sps richness all over. What a loss.. https://t.co/H4htZfinGH
Direct and indirect effects of island size and wave exposure on shoreline arthropod diversity. New paper published as early view in @JBiogeography @Stockholm_Uni @deepsthlmuni @LandscapeSthlm @ElsaAggemyr #arthropod #biodiversity #islandbiogeography
https://rdcu.be/bZke0
Life's islands under the sea #islandbiogeography www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext... @michaelgrr
Taking time to smell the...#books. #reading #oldbooks #islandbiogeography (1984)