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 ...

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 ...

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.

Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants which includes daisies, sunflowers and asters, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family comprises around 34,000 species, ...

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 ...