Due to its position between the highly distinct Oriental and Australasian biogeographical
realms, much effort has been spent demarcating associated separations and transitions in …

Endemic species of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean Page 1 Endemic species of Christmas Island,
Indian Ocean DJ James1, PT Green2, WF Humphreys3,4 and JCZ Woinarski5 1 73 Pozieres Ave …

The causes of population divergence in vagile groups remain a paradox in evolutionary
biology: dispersive species should be able to colonize new areas, a prerequisite for …

Nias is the largest of a chain of islands off the west coast of Sumatra. Historically, it received
extensive attention from ornithologists, leading to the description of numerous endemic …

Based on a comprehensive literature survey, we determined the sources of the terrestrial
vertebrate species on Christmas Island, asking where they originated relative to Wallace's …

Birdwatching is one of the popular activities for sustainable tourism in the mangrove
ecosystem. An inventory has been carried out to record the composition and abundance of …

The patterns of colonisation and phylogenetic relationships of the swiftlets from Oceania,
and in particular from the remotest archipelagos of Polynesia, remain a puzzle. In this study …

Abstract In Peninsular Malaysia, from the 1980s there has been progressive expansion of an
industry based on specially designed buildings to house colonies of edible-nest swiftlets …

Over the last two decades, vocal and genetic data have been extensively used in avian
studies addressing taxonomic and systematic issues. However, even when multiple lines of …

Among white-bellied glossy swiftlets of the Collocalia group, AR Wallace was first to
recognise the Makassar Strait, separating Borneo and Sulawesi, as a geographical barrier …