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 ...

An anole lizard silhouetted on a rainforest leaf. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. The biggest factor determining species diversity and distribution on islands is not size and isolation, as traditional ...

Derived from a meeting held at Harvard in October 2007 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The theory of island biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson. siris ...

Island biogeography theory, the idea that fragmented ecosystems have lower species richness per unit of area compared with contiguous habitats, has served as a useful conceptual model to understand ...

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing researchers to account for human activity in even their most basic ecological models. When Matthew Helmus was about eight years old and ...

Researchers identify the Lord Howe Island stick insect on the remains of a large volcano in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. In this webinar, Evelien Van Hamme and Elina Kuznecova ...

It is suggested that some knowledge of the theory of island biogeography is important for all biogeographers. However, some of the postulated relationships may have been derived for statistical ...