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Global change in microcosms : environmental and societal predictors of land cov...
Norder, Sietze; Lima, Ricardo F.; Nascimento, Lea; Lim, Jun Y.; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Romeiras, Maria M.; Elias, Rui B.; Cabezas, Francisco J.Islands contribute enormously to global biodiversity, but their species and ecosystems are highly threatened and often confined to small patches of remaining native vegetation. Islands are thus ideal microcosms to study the local dimensions of global change. While human activities have drastically transformed most islands, the extent to which societal and environmental conditions shape differences in land cover...
Recent geospatial dynamics of Terceira (Azores, Portugal) and the theoretical i...
Rijsdijk, Kenneth F.; Buijs, Simon; Quartau, Rui; Aguilée, Robin; Norder, Sietze; Ávila, Sérgio P.; Medeiros, Sara Maria TeixeiraOngoing work shows that species richness patterns on volcanic oceanic islands are shaped by surface area changes driven by longer time scale (>1 ka) geological processes and natural sea level fluctuations. A key question is: what are the rates and magnitudes of the forces driving spatial changes on volcanic oceanic islands which in turn affect evolutionary and biogeographic processes? We quantified the rates of...
Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountain...
Flantua, Suzette G. A.; Payne, Davnah; Borregaard, Michael K.; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Dullinger, Stefan; Essl, FranzAIM: Mountains and islands are both well known for their high endemism. To explain this similarity, parallels have been drawn between the insularity of "true islands" (land surrounded by water) and the isolation of habitats within mountains (so-called "mountain islands"). However, parallels rarely go much beyond the observation that mountaintops are isolated from one another, as are true islands. Here, we chall...