Nature

Island Biogeography in the Era of Humans

In some ways, islands provide a ready-made laboratory for studying evolution. Thanks to their isolation from each other and the mainland, islands offer an ideal venue for speciation, with Darwin's ...
Big Island Now

New Botany Checklist maps past, present and future of Hawaiʻi’s native and invasive plants

Bishop Museum is offering an updated Botany Checklist of native and non-native plants of the islands — alive and extinct — as ...
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The fragmented forest : island biogeography theory and the preservation of biotic diversity / Larry D. Harris ; with a foreword by Kenton R. Miller

Part 1: Problem setting. Introduction ; The approach -- Part 2: Current states of nature. The natural forest community. High latitude and Mediterranean climate ; Canopy height and massivity of forest ...
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Island biogeography at the mesoscale: Distance from forest edge affects choice of patch size by ovipositing treefrogs

Diversity in habitat patches is partly driven by variation in patch size, which affects extinction, and isolation, which affects immigration. Patch size also affects immigration as a component of ...
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The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary play?

Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Hladik, Annette, Hladik, Claude Marcela, and Jolly, Alison. 2007. "The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary ...