Late Quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity

Patrick Weigelt (), Manuel Jonas Steinbauer, Juliano Sarmento Cabral and Holger Kreft ()
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Patrick Weigelt: Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen
Manuel Jonas Steinbauer: Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
Juliano Sarmento Cabral: Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen
Holger Kreft: Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen

Nature, 2016, vol. 532, issue 7597, 99-102

Abstract: Relatively rapid changes in island area, isolation and connectivity observed since the Last Glacial Maximum have had measurable effects on present-day biodiversity, with formerly larger and less well connected islands having a greater number of endemic species.

Date: 2016
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