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Geographic Patterns of Head Morphology in Syngnathus typhle Across Marine Regions

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Morphometric analysis of Syngnathus typhle head shape shows distinct geographic patterns across Baltic, North, Atlantic, and Mediterranean marine regions, driven by variation in snout length, head depth, and eye position. Findings provide a non‐invasive baseline for conservation monitoring.
Miriam Ravisato, Glenn Le Floch, Cataldo Pierri, Vincent Bels, José J. Castro‐Hernandez, Raphael Cornette, Luca Giannattasio, Michele Gristina, Airam Guerra, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Tamara Lazic, Patrick Louisy, Nuno Monteiro, Bruno Serranito, Marco Spoto, Beatriz Taboada, Eric Feunteun   +16 more
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Changes in Mammalian Body Length over 175 Years - Adaptations to a Fragmented Landscape?

Ecology and Society, 2003
The potential consequences of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation on species diversity and extinction have drawn considerable attention in recent decades.
Niels Martin Schmidt, Per Moestrup Jensen   +1 more
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Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Published research on Matja Kuru 2 (MK2) demonstrates its significance for understanding human lifestyle during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Murids represent the most commonly identified taxa in the site, with specimens preliminarily classified as small, large and giant based on size comparisons.
Sarah Hannan, Sofia C. Samper Carro, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
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ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE ISLAS SECAS, GULF OF CHIRIQUÍ, PANAMÁ

Tecnociencia, 2021
Studies of the avifauna of Panama’s many islands have made important contributions to the development of the theory of island biogeography. In addition, the islands of Panama’s Pacific coast, with 38 described endemic subspecies of birds, show ...
George Angehr, Rosabel Miró, Esther Carty, Venicio Wilson, Jan Axel Cubilla   +4 more
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Morphometric and Paleobiological Insights Into Pleistocene Sicilian Wolf Populations

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus) from Sicily represent one of the few known insular populations of this species from that time period. Despite their potential relevance for understanding carnivore adaptations in insular contexts, no dedicated study has previously investigated their morphology and evolutionary significance.
Domenico Tancredi, Carolina Di Patti, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Matteo Cammarata   +3 more
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The unifying, fundamental principles of biogeography: understanding Island Life

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2016
I describe the set of fundamental principles of biogeography that can serve as an integrative, conceptual framework for unifying and advancing our abilities to explain the geography of life – generally.
Mark Vincent Lomolino
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Fixation of genetic variation and optimization of gene expression: The speed of evolution in isolated lizard populations undergoing Reverse Island Syndrome.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The ecological theory of island biogeography suggests that mainland populations should be more genetically divergent from those on large and distant islands rather than from those on small and close islets.
Maria Buglione, Simona Petrelli, Valeria Maselli, Martina Trapanese, Marco Salvemini, Serena Aceto, Anna Di Cosmo, Domenico Fulgione   +7 more
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Diverging responses of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic plant diversity to biogeographic parameters in arid habitat islands of southern Africa [PDF]

Frontiers of Biogeography
Habitat islands conceptually bridge true islands and habitat patches, adding new perspectives to island biogeographic principles that shape community assembly processes.
Alexander M. Bürger, Katharina Meyer, Pia M. Eibes, Charlotte Lauel, Jens Oldeland, Ute Schmiedel, Severin D. H. Irl   +6 more
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Rethinking areas of endemism and barriers: perspectives for a causal historical biogeography and a critique of Schultz and Cracraft (2024)

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Historical biogeography faces a persistent conceptual and methodological dilemma concerning the nature of its central analytical units. Using the recent proposal by Schultz and Cracraft (Cladistics 40, 653) as a catalyst, this article critiques the argument that causal inference necessitates the replacement of areas of endemism with barriers ...
Augusto Ferrari
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The ethnobotany and biogeography of wild vegetables in the Adriatic islands

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019
Background Archipelagos of islands have played an important role in shaping some of the paradigms of biology, including the theory of the evolution of species. Later, their importance in biology was further emphasised by the theory of island biogeography,
Łukasz Łuczaj, Marija Jug-Dujaković, Katija Dolina, Mirjana Jeričević, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić   +4 more
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