Gloger's rule is an ecogeographical rule that links animal colouration with climatic variation.
This rule is named after CWL Gloger who was one of the first to summarise the associations …

Remote island archipelagos offer superb opportunities to study the evolution of community
assembly because of their relatively young and simple communities where speciation …

Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

The introduction of avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) to Hawaii has provided a model
system for studying the influence of exotic disease on naive host populations. Little is known …

Oceanic islands have long served as natural laboratories for understanding the
diversification of life,,,. In particular, the many thousands of islands spanning the tropical …

The Corvides (previously referred to as the core Corvoidea) are a morphologically diverse
clade of passerine birds comprising nearly 800 species. The group originated some 30 …

To the untrained eye, all reed warblers may look alike. Anyone who takes a closer look will
quickly realize that there is in fact an amazing spectrum of different ecological and adaptive …

Research on the dynamics of biodiversity has progressed tremendously over recent years,
although in two separate directions–ecological, to determine change over space at a given …

The islands of French Polynesia cover an area the size of Europe, though total land area is
smaller than Rhode Island. Each hot spot archipelago (Societies, Marquesas, Australs) is …

Almost two hundred species of birds have become extinct in the past 400 years, and a
similar number today are in imminent danger of following them. The world's conservationists …