Browsing by Author "Triantis, Kostas A."
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The Aegean archipelago: A natural laboratory of evolution, ecology and civilisations
Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Triantis, Kostas A. (2017)The Aegean archipelago, comprising numerous islands and islets with great heterogeneity in topographic, geological, historical and environmental properties, offers an ideal natural laboratory for ecological and evolutionary ...
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Biodiversity patterns of terrestrial isopods from two island groups in the Aegean Sea (Greece): Species-area relationship, small island effect, and nestedness
Triantis, Kostas A.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Mylonas, Moisis (2008)Although almost one third of Aegean islands have an area smaller than 1 km2, very few studies have concentrated on this spatial Scale. We investigate biodiversity patterns of terrestrial isopods in 2 island groups (Kalymnos ...
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Habitat diversity, ecological requirements of species and the Small Island Effect
Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Triantis, Kostas A. (2009)Aim: To explore the causal factors leading to a significant Small Island Effect (SIE), that is, the absence of the commonly found species-area relationships below an island size, on the terrestrial isopod communities from ...
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Increased molecular divergence of two endemic Trachelipus (Isopoda, Oniscidea) species from Greece reveals patterns not congruent with current taxonomy
Parmakelis, A.; Klossa-Kilia, E.; Kilias, G.; Triantis, Kostas A.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2008)In the present study, we employed three mitochondrial DNA genetic markers in a phylogenetic analysis aiming at the delineation of the relationships amongst nominal Trachelipus kytherensis populations, as well as between ...
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Island biogeography is not a single-variable discipline: The small island effect debate
Triantis, Kostas A.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2012)In some island systems, an 'anomalous' feature of species richness on smaller islands, in comparison with larger ones, has been observed. This has been described as the small island effect (SIE). The precise meaning of the ...
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Island species richness increases with habitat diversity
Hortal, J.; Triantis, Kostas A.; Meiri, S.; Thébault, E.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2009)Species richness is commonly thought to increase with habitat diversity. However, a recent theoretical model aiming to unify niche and island biogeography theories predicted a hump-shaped relationship between richness and ...
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Patterns of species richness on very small islands: The plants of the Aegean archipelago
Panitsa, M.; Tzanoudakis, D.; Triantis, Kostas A.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2006)Aim: To investigate the species-area relationship (SAR) of plants on very small islands, to examine the effect of other factors on species richness, and to check for a possible Small Island Effect (SIE). Location: The study ...
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Species richness can decrease with altitude but not with habitat diversity
Hortal, J.; Carrascal, L. M.; Triantis, Kostas A.; Theb́ault, E.; Meiri, S.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2013)