Island biodiversity in the Anthropocene

JC Russell, C Kueffer - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Biodiversity on marine islands is characterized by unique biogeographic, phylogenetic and
functional characteristics. Islands hold a disproportionate amount of the world's biodiversity …

The island syndrome in birds

MT Jezierski, WJ Smith, SM Clegg - Journal of Biogeography, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The island syndrome is a widespread biological phenomenon that describes a suite of
morphological, behavioural, demographic and life‐history changes associated with island …

Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design

S Meiri - Global ecology and biogeography, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Motivation over the last 12 years I have been collecting trait and geographic data on lizards.
These data could be useful for scientists studying this remarkable reptilian radiation …

A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

J Patiño, RJ Whittaker, PAV Borges… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aims The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island
Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review …

Convergent evolution toward a slow pace of life predisposes insular endotherms to anthropogenic extinctions

Y **ong, R Rozzi, Y Zhang, L Fan, J Zhao, D Li… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Island vertebrates have evolved a number of morphological, physiological, and life history
characteristics that set them apart from their mainland relatives. However, to date, the …

Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates

A Etard, S Morrill, T Newbold - Global Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Trait data are increasingly being used in studies investigating the impacts of global
changes on the structure and functioning of ecological communities. Despite a growing …

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

A Feldman, N Sabath, RA Pyron… - Global Ecology and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Size is one of the most important and obvious traits of an organism. Both small and
large sizes have adaptive advantages and disadvantages. Body size–frequency …

The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes

S Meiri, L Avila, AM Bauer, DG Chapple… - Global Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Clutch size is a key life‐history trait. In lizards, it ranges over two orders of magnitude.
The global drivers of spatial and phylogenetic variation in clutch have been extensively …

Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

S Meiri, AM Bauer, L Chirio, GR Colli… - Global Ecology and …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Temperature influences most components of animal ecology and life history–but what
kind of temperature? Physiologists usually examine the influence of body temperatures …

Predictable evolution towards larger brains in birds colonizing oceanic islands

F Sayol, PA Downing, AN Iwaniuk, J Maspons… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Abstract Theory and evidence suggest that some selective pressures are more common on
islands than in adjacent mainland habitats, leading evolution to follow predictable trends …