RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Island biology: looking towards the future A1 Kueffer, Christoph A1 Drake, Donald A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María K1 adaptive radiation K1 biodiversity K1 community ecology K1 island biogeography K1 macroecology K1 oceanic island K1 radiación adaptativa K1 biodiversidad K1 ecología de comunidades K1 biogeografía insular K1 macroecología K1 islas oceánicas AB Oceanic islands are renowned for the profound scientific insights that their fascinatingbiotas have provided to biologists during the past two centuries.Research presented at Island Biology 2014—an international conference, heldin Honolulu, Hawaii (7–11 July 2014), which attracted 253 presenters and 430participants from at least 35 countries1—demonstrated that islands are reclaiminga leading role in ecology and evolution, especially for synthetic studies at theintersections of macroecology, evolution, community ecology and applied ecology.New dynamics in island biology are stimulated by four majordevelopments.We are experiencing the emergence of a truly global and comprehensiveisland research community incorporating previously neglected islandsand taxa.Macroecology and big-data analyses yield awealth of global-scale syntheticstudies and detailed multi-island comparisons, while other modernresearch approaches such as genomics, phylogenetic and functional ecology,and palaeoecology, are also dispersing to islands. And, increasingly tight collaborationsbetween basic research and conservation management make islandsplaces where new conservation solutions for the twenty-first century are beingtested. Islands are home to a disproportionate share of the world’s rare (andextinct) species, and there is an urgent need to develop increasingly collaborativeand innovative research to address their conservation requirements. PB The Royal Society YR 2014 FD 2014 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18434 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18434 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 29-mar-2024