Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

[ספר][B] Mediterranean voyages: the archaeology of island colonisation and abandonment

H Dawson - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation,
abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies …

Post-glacial colonization of Europe by the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus: evidence of a northern refugium and dispersal with humans

JS Herman, F Jóhannesdóttir, EP Jones… - Biological Journal of …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
The wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus is an opportunistic rodent that is found throughout
most of the European mainland. It is present on many islands around the margins of the …

Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part I. Diversity and endemism (Insecta: Coleoptera)

V Assing - Beiträge Zur Entomologie …, 2019‏ - contributions-to-entomology.org
Mit ihrer durch lange Isolation sowie durch Zeiten teilweiser Fragmentierung, Submersion
und nachfolgender Hebung gekennzeichneten geologischen Vergangenheit, ihrer …

[PDF][PDF] A new subspecies of grey wolf (Carnivora, Canidae), recently extinct, from Sicily, Italy

FM Angelici, L Rossi - BioRxiv, 2018‏ - academia.edu
A new subspecies of grey wolf (Carnivora, Canidae), recently extinct, from Sicily, Italy Page 1
Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 42, 2018 Botanica Zoologia: 03-15 …

Lights and shadows in the evolutionary patterns of insular bovids

R Rozzi, MR Palombo - Integrative Zoology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Endemic bovids are intriguing elements of insular faunas. The living species include the
Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) and the Formosan serow (C. swinhoei), the tamaraw …

Long-term trend of Italian breeding forest birds and comparison with the other Mediterranean peninsulas

B Massa - Biogeographia–The Journal of Integrative …, 2024‏ - escholarship.org
The author has carried out a bibliographic survey of the status of breeding forest birds in Italy
over 15 decades (1872-2022) in order to establish an objective long-term trend (stable …

[PDF][PDF] Pleistocene island occupation in the Mediterranean: insights from a tied-biome approach to glacial refugia

N Phoca-Cosmetatou, RJ Rabett - Living in the landscape: essays …, 2014‏ - pure.qub.ac.uk
Concepts drawn from 'island biogeography'(Mac Arthur & Wilson 1967; Whittaker &
Fernández-Palacios 2007), such as size, configuration and distance to other landmasses …

The Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi–New studies on the Ice Age cave art on Sicily

S Tusa, G di Maida, A Pastoors, H Piezonka… - Praehistorische …, 2013‏ - degruyter.com
La Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi sull'isola di Levanzo, lungo la costa ovest della Sicilia,
contiene uno degli esempi più rilevanti dell'arte parietale tardoglaciale dell'intero …

[PDF][PDF] Origin and Long-Term Trend of Italian Breeding Forest Birds in the Mediterranean Context

B Massa - 2023‏ - preprints.org
The author attempts to reconstruct the climatic vicissitudes of the Mediterranean to explain
why only broadly distributed Eurasian forest species have penetrated the Mediterranean …