Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: Prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 200-217

  Warren, Ben H ^a,b,c   Simberloff, Daniel ^b   Ricklefs, Robert E ^d   Aguilée, Robin ^e   Condamine, Fabien L ^f   Gravel, Dominique ^g   Morlon, Hélène ^h   Mouquet, Nicolas ⁱ   Rosindell, James ^j   Casquet, Juliane ^e   Conti, Elena ^a   Cornuault, Josselin ^e   Fernández Palacios, José María ^k   Hengl, Tomislav ^l   Norder, Sietze J ^m   Rijsdijk, Kenneth F ^m   Sanmartín, Isabel ⁿ   Strasberg, Dominique ^c   Triantis, Kostas A ^o,p   Valente, Luis M ^q   Whittaker, Robert J ^p   Gillespie, Rosemary G ^r   Emerson, Brent C ^s   Thébaud, Christophe ^e,t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^f CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES APPLIQUÉES   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^j IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^l ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁿ CSIC   (Spain)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^t Domain du Petit Arbois   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Community assembly; Diversification; Ecosystem functioning; Genomics; Island biogeography; Islands as model systems; Speciation

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENE FLOW; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RESEARCH METHOD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; ISLANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84921273313     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12398     Document Type: Review

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