Island biogeography of the Anthropocene

Matthew R. Helmus (), D. Luke Mahler and Jonathan B. Losos
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Matthew R. Helmus: Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
D. Luke Mahler: Center for Population Biology, University of California
Jonathan B. Losos: Harvard University

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7519, 543-546

Abstract: A contemporary test of the theory of island biogeography, in which species richness is determined by an island’s area and isolation, shows that geographic area is still a good positive predictor of species richness, but that geographic isolation as a negative predictor has been replaced by economic isolation.

Date: 2014
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