In some ways, islands provide a ready-made laboratory for studying evolution. Thanks to their isolation from each other and the mainland, islands offer an ideal venue for speciation, with Darwin's ...

Mountains are defined by their prominence, steep sides, and significant height above the surrounding regions. They harbor exceptionally high levels of biodiversity and a great number of endemic ...

Aim To assess the relative contributions of colonization, speciation and human activities on species richness (S) of mammalian communities among oceanic islands. Location Palaeo-islands world-wide.

Diversity in habitat patches is partly driven by variation in patch size, which affects extinction, and isolation, which affects immigration. Patch size also affects immigration as a component of ...

Part 1: Problem setting. Introduction ; The approach -- Part 2: Current states of nature. The natural forest community. High latitude and Mediterranean climate ; Canopy height and massivity of forest ...

You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta ...