Browsing by Subject "Island biogeography"
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The Aegean archipelago: A natural laboratory of evolution, ecology and civilisations
(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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Between-island compositional dissimilarity of avian communities
(2014)Compositional dissimilarity patterns of biotic communities can vary among different types of insular systems and among taxa with different dispersal abilities. In this work we examined compositional dissimilarity patterns ...
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Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities
(Wiley, 2022-06-10)Aim Whether entire communities of organisms converge towards predictable structural properties in similar environmental conditions remains controversial. We tested for community convergence in birds by comparing the ...
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Habitat diversity, ecological requirements of species and the Small Island Effect
(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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Island species richness increases with habitat diversity
(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
(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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The species-area relationship of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda
(1996)Data on species richness of terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) from central Aegean islands (Greece), together with previously published data sets from other taxa and areas, are critically analysed under the basic premises of ...
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Turnover of plants on small islets of the eastern Aegean Sea within two decades
(2008)Aim: To estimate species turnover of plants on 32 small islands within a 20-year period and to assess possible changes in community composition and properties, such as species richness and factors affecting it, nestedness, ...