Diversity, 2017 The theory of island biogeography has revolutionised the study of island biology stimulating considerable debate and leading to the development of new advances in related areas.
Duncan McCollin
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High-resolution coproecology: Using coprolites to reconstruct the habits and habitats of New Zealand’s extinct upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus) [PDF]
, 2005 Knowledge about the diet and ecology of extinct herbivores has important implications for understanding the evolution of plant defence structures, establishing the influences of herbivory on past plant community structure and composition, and identifying
Wood, Jamie R. +5 more
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Genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird: isolation by distance, by colonization or by adaptation? [PDF]
, 2014 Discerning the relative roles of adaptive and nonadaptive processes in generating differences among populations and species, as well as how these processes interact, is a fundamental aim in biology.
Dawson, Deborah A. +4 more
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Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2009 We analyzed mtDNA control region sequences of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from Arvoredo Island, a foraging ground in southern Brazil, and identified eight haplotypes.
Maíra Carneiro Proietti +5 more
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A new vesselless angiosperm stem with a cambial variant from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 We sectioned a permineralized stem preserved in marine calcareous concretions from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula using the cellulose-acetate peel technique.
M. Laura Pipo +2 more
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Geographic range size and evolutionary age in birds [PDF]
, 2000 Together with patterns of speciation and extinction, post-speciation transformations in the range sizes of individual species determine the form of contemporary species-range-size distributions.
Kevin J. Gaston +2 more
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Fine-scale population structure and asymmetrical dispersal in an obligate salt-marsh passerine, the Saltmarsh Sparrow (Ammodramus Caudacutus) [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding the spatial scale of gene flow can yield valuable insight into the ecology of an organism and guide conservation strategies. Fine-scale genetic structure is uncommon in migratory passerines because of their high vagility and presumed high ...
Babbitt, Kimberly J. +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Intriguing latest Eocene land-faunal dispersals between South America and the Greater Antilles (northern Caribbean) has inspired the hypothesis of the GAARlandia (Greater Antilles Aves Ridge) land bridge. This landbridge, however, should have crossed the
Mélody Philippon +14 more
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Mammalia, Didelphimorphia and Rodentia, southwest of the province of Mendoza, Argentina [PDF]
, 2008 We documented terrestrial micromammal assemblages at five localities of southwestern Mendoza province, Argentina. We added new localities for several of the most uncommon small mammal species of this region (e.g.
Pardiñas, Ulises Francisco J. +2 more
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Water, oceanic fracture zones and the lubrication of subducting plate boundaries - insights from seismicity [PDF]
, 2015 We investigate the relationship between subduction processes and related seismicity for the Lesser Antilles Arc using the Gutenberg-Richter law. This power lawdescribes the earthquakemagnitude distribution, with the gradient of the cumulative magnitude ...
Baptie, B +8 more
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