The extensive postglacial mammal losses in the West Indies provide an opportunity to
evaluate extinction dynamics, but limited data have hindered our ability to test hypotheses …

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. They
range from low limestone islands barely above sea level to volcanic islands with …

The human colonization of the Canary Islands represents the sole known expansion of
Berber communities into the Atlantic Ocean and is an example of marine dispersal carried …

Human settlement of the Caribbean represents the only example in the Americas of peoples
colonizing islands that were not visible from surrounding mainland areas or other islands …

This paper presents the results of technological and morphological analyses carried out on
fluted point collections from North, Central, and South America. Technological similarities …

In the face of environmental uncertainty due to anthropogenic climate change, islands are at
the front lines of global change, threatened by sea level rise, habitat alteration, extinctions …

Aquaculture is the world's fastest growing food sector and accounts for more than 50% of the
world's fish food supply. The significant growth in global aquaculture since the middle of the …

Scientists recognize the Caribbean archipelago as a biodiversity hotspot and employ it for
their research as a natural laboratory. Yet they do not always appreciate that these …

Across the world's seas and oceans, archaeological research focused on islands has
generally privileged those that are larger in size. Explanations for this phenomenon range …

Abstract Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us
to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common …