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Functional diversity and community convergence of land snails in the Aegean Sea...
Proios, Konstantinos; Maroulis, Leonidas; Rigal, François; Matthews, Thomas J.; Cameron, Robert A. D.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Whittaker, RobertABSTRACT: Aim: Island biological communities are considered to comprise non-random assem-blages from surrounding source pools, but whether they converge towards predictable structural properties remains unclear. Here, we (i) test whether insular communities of land snails converge towards similar functional and/or taxonomic properties and (ii) evaluate whether island functional diversity is determined by island...
A global analysis of avian island diversity–area relationships in the Anthropocene
Matthews, Thomas J.; Wayman, Joseph P.; Whittaker, Robert J.; Cardoso, Pedro; Hume, Julian P.; Sayol, Ferran; Proios, Konstantinos; Martin, Thomas E.Research on island species–area relationships (ISAR) has expanded to incorporate functional (IFDAR) and phylogenetic (IPDAR) diversity. However, relative to the ISAR, we know little about IFDARs and IPDARs, and lack synthetic global analyses of variation in form of these three categories of island diversity–area relationship (IDAR). Here, we undertake the first comparative evaluation of IDARs at the global scal...
The role of ecological specialization in shaping patterns of insular communities
Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Triantis, Kostas A.; Proios, Konstantinos; Rigal, FrançoisAIM: Research on the response of species richness to area and environmental heterogeneity so far has not addressed possible effects of species’ differences in ecological specialization. Herein we provide a new metric, ‘ecorichness’, in an attempt to fill this gap. LOCATION: Aegean islands (Greece). TAXON: Terrestrial isopods. METHODS: ‘Ecorichness’ estimates an island's biodiversity by integrating species richn...