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A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography: Extending the MacArthur- Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands

scholarly article

A Revision of Estimates of Bird Colonization on Krakatau

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A biogeographical perspective on species abundance distributions: recent advances and opportunities for future research

scholarly article by Thomas J. Matthews et al published 19 April 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

A global model of island species-area relationships

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

A reconstruction of Palaeo-Macaronesia, with particular reference to the long-term biogeography of the Atlantic island laurel forests

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A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

scholarly article by Jairo Patiño et al published 20 March 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Accounting for data heterogeneity in patterns of biodiversity: an application of linear mixed effect models to the oceanic island biogeography of spore-producing plants

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Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity?

scientific article

An Uncertain Future

scientific article published on 16 June 2006

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Anthropogenic transitions from forested to human-dominated landscapes in southern Macaronesia

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest

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Are protected areas required to maintain functional diversity in human-modified landscapes?

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Are species-area relationships from entire archipelagos congruent with those of their constituent islands?

scientific article published in 2010

Assembly Rules Demonstrated in a Saltmarsh Community

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Assessing predicted isolation effects from the general dynamic model of island biogeography with an eco‐evolutionary model for plants

scientific article

Assessing the relative importance of isolated Ficus trees to insectivorous birds in an Indian human-modified tropical landscape

Assessing tropical forest restoration after fire using birds as indicators: An afrotropical case study

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Avifaunal responses to habitat fragmentation in the threatened littoral forests of south-eastern Madagascar

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Basic Biogeography: Estimating Biodiversity and Mapping Nature

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Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography

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Beyond the Last Glacial Maximum: Island endemism is best explained by long-lasting archipelago configurations

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Biodiversity conservation: uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk

scientific article

Bird community responses to habitat fragmentation: how consistent are they across landscapes?

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Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Can additive beta diversity be reliably partitioned into nestedness and turnover components?

scientific article published in 2019

Changing the surface of our planet - results from studies of the global ecosystem. GCTE/LUCC EDITORIAL

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Climate change and amphibian diversity patterns in Mexico

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Climatic gradients in woody plant (tree and shrub) diversity: water-energy dynamics, residual variation, and topography

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Colonization and Succession on Krakatau: An Analysis of the Guild of Vining Plants

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Comparative phylogeography of endemic Azorean arthropods

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect

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Conservation biogeography - foundations, concepts and challenges

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Dangers of crying wolf over risk of extinctions

scientific article published in Nature

Darwin and biogeography

scholarly article by Robert J. Whittaker published June 2009 in Journal of Biogeography

Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities

scientific article published on 10 June 2022

Development of 28 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the endemic Azorean spider Sancus acoreensis (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

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Dispersal ability determines the scaling properties of species abundance distributions: a case study using arthropods from the Azores

scientific article

Dispersal, fruit utilization and seed predation of Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum in early successional rainforest, Krakatau, Indonesia

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Disturbed island ecology ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1995

Do biological traits drive geographical patterns in European amphibians?

scientific article published in 2016

Drip-tips are Associated with Intensity of Precipitation in the Amazon Rain Forest

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Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles.

scientific article published on June 2015

ET come home: potential evapotranspiration in geographical ecology

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Ecological Lessons from Oceanic Islands

scientific article published in 1996

Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey

scientific article published in 2015

Ecology. Species diversity--scale matters

scientific article published in February 2002

Ecoregions in Context: a Critique with Special Reference to Indonesia

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Editorial

Editorial

Editorial: Developments in biogeography

scholarly article by Robert J. Whittaker published 16 December 2013 in Journal of Biogeography

Effects of Holocene climate change, volcanism and mass migration on the ecosystem of a small, dry island (Brava, Cabo Verde)

scientific article published in 2021

Effects of land‐use change on avian taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in a tropical montane rainforest

scientific article published on 27 June 2021

Effects of time and isolation on plant diversity: testing island biogeography theory with an eco-evolutionary model

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Evolutionary species–area curves as revealed by single-island endemics: insights for the inter-provincial species–area relationship

scientific article published in 2008

Evolutionary species–area curves as revealed by single-island endemics: insights for the inter-provincial species–area relationship

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Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants

scientific article published on 7 June 2021

Extension of the gambin model to multimodal species abundance distributions

scientific article published in 2018

Extinction debt on oceanic islands

article

Farewell Editorial

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Frontiers of Biogeography relaunched with Pensoft Publishers

scientific article published in 2024

Frontispiece: Diversity patterns of small mammals along elevational gradients

scientific article published in 2001

Fruits of the Forest in Peril

scientific article published on 16 June 2006

Functional and phylogenetic diversity of an agricultural matrix avifauna: The role of habitat heterogeneity in Afrotropical farmland

scientific article published in July 2022

Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores. ⬇️

scientific article

Functional traits of indigenous and exotic ground-dwelling arthropods show contrasting responses to land-use change in an oceanic island, Terceira, Azores

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Future Climate Change of the Subtropical North Atlantic: Implications for the Cloud Forests of Tenerife

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GLOBAL MODELS FOR PREDICTING WOODY PLANT RICHNESS FROM CLIMATE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION

article by Richard Field et al published September 2005 in Ecology

Geographical gradients of species richness: a test of the water-energy conjecture of ) using European data for five taxa

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Geographical gradients of species richness: a test of the water-energy conjecture of ) using European data for five taxa

scientific article published in 2006

Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

Habitat fragmentation and the species-area relationship: a focus on total species richness obscures the impact of habitat loss on habitat specialists

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Habitat structure and proximity to forest edge affect the abundance and distribution of forest-dependent birds in tropical coastal forests of southeastern Madagascar

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How resilient are Andean montane forest bird communities to habitat degradation?

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How to go extinct: lessons from the lost plants of Krakatau

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How well do Important Bird Areas represent species and minimize conservation conflict in the tropical Andes?

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Humboldt's enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

In Memoriam: John Roger Flenley

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

In search of general models in evolutionary time and space

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In the dragon's den: a response to the meta‐analysis forum contributions ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Integration of non-indigenous species within the interspecific abundance–occupancy relationship

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Interesting times on Krakatau: stand dynamics in the 1990s.

scientific article

Island biodiversity conservation needs palaeoecology

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature's laboratories

scientific article

Island species-area relationships and species accumulation curves are not equivalent: an analysis of habitat island datasets

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Island species-energy theory

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Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Isolated Ficus trees deliver dual conservation and development benefits in a rural landscape

scientific article

Journal review and gender equality: a critical comment on Budden et al.

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

Krakatau: Colonization Patterns and Hierarchies

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Latitude, productivity and species richness

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Mapping tropical forest structure in southeastern Madagascar using remote sensing and artificial neural networks

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Measurements of area and the (island) species-area relationship: new directions for an old pattern

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Meta‐analyses and mega‐mistakes: calling time on meta‐analysis of the species richness–productivity relationship ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Modern pollen rain in Canary Island ecosystems and its implications for the interpretation of fossil records

Multimodal species abundance distributions: a deconstruction approach reveals the processes behind the pattern

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Mycorrhizal types influence island biogeography of plants

scientific article

Neutral theory and the species abundance distribution: recent developments and prospects for unifying niche and neutral perspectives

scientific article

New records and detailed distribution and abundance of selected arthropod species collected between 1999 and 2011 in Azorean native forests

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Node-based analysis of species distributions

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Non-Equilibration in Island Theory of Krakatau

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Novel plant–frugivore network on Mauritius is unlikely to compensate for the extinction of seed dispersers

scientific article published in 2023

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

scholarly article by Robert J. Whittaker et al published 31 January 2008 in Journal of Biogeography

Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect

scientific article

Old World fruit bats can be long-distance seed dispersers through extended retention of viable seeds in the gut

article by L. A. Shilton et al published 7 February 1999 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

On the form of species-area relationships in habitat islands and true islands

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Perspectives: paleoecology. The refugial debate.

scientific article published on February 2000

Planning for Persistence in a Changing World

Plant population patterns in a glacier foreland succession: pioneer herbs and later-colonizing shrubs

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Population Persistence, Pollination Mutualisms, and Figs in Fragmented Tropical Landscapes

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Population Persistence, Pollination Mutualisms, and Figs in Fragmented Tropical Landscapes

Progress in invasive plants research

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Prospects and Challenges

Quantifying and interpreting nestedness in habitat islands: a synthetic analysis of multiple datasets

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REVIEW: On the species abundance distribution in applied ecology and biodiversity management

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Rapid assessment in conservation research: a critique of avifaunal assessment techniques illustrated by Ecuadorian and Madagascan case study data

scientific article published in 2004

Reconstructing Holocene vegetation on the island of Gran Canaria before and after human colonization

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Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change

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Response to Comment on "An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world".

scientific article

Scale and species richness: towards a general, hierarchical theory of species diversity

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2001)

Scale, succession and complexity in island biogeography: are we asking the right questions?

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Scaling, energetics and diversity

scientific article published in Nature

Scientists and the media: the struggle for legitimacy in climate change and conservation science

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Short Notice: Raising the Montane Profile

scientific article published on 16 June 2006

Snails on oceanic islands: testing the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography using linear mixed effect models

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Southeast Alaska marine ecology and biogeography

scholarly article by Ginny L. Eckert et al published March 2009 in Journal of Biogeography

Structure in Re-Building Insular Ecosystems: An Empirically Derived Model

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Surface and Buried Seed Banks from Krakatau, Indonesia: Implications for the Sterilization Hypothesis

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Systemic range shift lags among a pollinator species assemblage following rapid climate change1This article is part of a Special Issue entitled “Pollination biology research in Canada: Perspectives on a mutualism at different scales”

scholarly article by Felicity E. Bedford et al published July 2012 in Botany

Testing the impact of climate variability on European plant diversity: 320,000 years of water-energy dynamics and its long-term influence on plant taxonomic richness

scientific article published in August 2007

The Canaries: an important biogeographical meeting place

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The Importance ofFicus(Moraceae) Trees for Tropical Forest Restoration

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The Role of Frugivorous Bats and Birds in the Rebuilding of a Tropical Forest Ecosystem, Krakatau, Indonesia

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The Roots of Conservation Biogeography

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The Vegetation of the Storbreen Gletschervorfeld, Jotunheimen, Norway. III. Vegetation-Environment Relationships

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The Vegetation of the Storbreen Gletschervorfeld, Jotunheimen, Norway. IV. Short-Term Vegetation Change

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The ancient forests of La Gomera, Canary Islands, and their sensitivity to environmental change

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The effects of land-use change on arthropod richness and abundance on Santa Maria Island (Azores): unmanaged plantations favour endemic beetles

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The first humans, the second orangutan and the third chimpanzee

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The gambin model provides a superior fit to species abundance distributions with a single free parameter: evidence, implementation and interpretation

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The general dynamic model: towards a unified theory of island biogeography?

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The geographical distribution of life and the problem of regionalization: 100 years after Alfred Russel Wallace

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The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

The importance of littoral forest remnants for indigenous bird conservation in southeastern Madagascar

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The irreversible cattle-driven transformation of a seasonally flooded Australian savanna

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The island immaturity - speciation pulse model of island evolution: an alternative to the “diversity begets diversity” model

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The island species-area relationship: biology and statistics

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The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

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The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

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The species-area relationship: an exploration of that ‘most general, yet protean pattern’1

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The use of mineral magnetic analyses as an aid in investigating the recent volcanic disturbance history of the Krakatau Islands, Indonesia

scholarly article by John Walden et al published October 1991 in The Holocene

The varied form of species-area relationships

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Thresholds and the species-area relationship: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets

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Towards a glacial-sensitive model of island biogeography

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Transferring and implementing the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography at the scale of island fragments: the roles of geological age and topography in plant diversification in the Canaries

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Tree species richness modelling: an approach of global applicability?

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Tree structure and diversity in human-impacted littoral forests, madagascar

scientific article published in June 2005

Unifying and distinguishing diversity ordering methods for comparing communities

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Using multiple palaeoecological indicators to guide biodiversity conservation in tropical dry islands: The case of São Nicolau, Cabo Verde

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Vegetation Succession on the Storbreen Glacier Foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway: A Review

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WHAT IS THE OBSERVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES RICHNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY? COMMENT

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Wrong in interesting ways

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Wrong in interesting ways. MacArthur, R. H. & Wilson, E. O. (1967: reprinted with new preface by E. O. Wilson, 2001) The theory of island biogeography. Princeton Landmarks in Biology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. xv +203 pp., figs,

scholarly article by Robert J. Whittaker published November 2001 in Journal of Biogeography

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