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T1 Advances in island plant biology since Sherwin Carlquist’s Island Biology
A1 Traveset, Anna
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
A1 Kueffer, Christoph
A1 Bellingham, Peter J.
A1 Morden, Clifford
A1 Drake, Donald
K1 Biogeography
K1 island ecology and conservation
K1 oceanic islands
K1 palaeoecology
K1 phylogeography
K1 biogeografía
K1 conservación y ecología insular
K1 islas oceánicas
K1 paleoecología
AB Sherwin Carlquist’s seminal publications—in particular his classic Island Biology, published in 1974—formulatedhypotheses specific to island biology that remain valuable today. This special issue brings together some of the most interestingcontributions presented at the First Island Biology Symposiumhosted in Honolulu on 7–11 July 2014.We compiled atotal of 18 contributions that present data from multiple archipelagos across the world and from different disciplines withinthe plant sciences. In this introductory paper,we first provide a short overviewof Carlquist’s life andwork and then summarizethemain findings of the collated papers. A first group of papers deals with issues to which Carlquist notably contributed: longdistancedispersal, adaptive radiation and plant reproductive biology. The findings of such studies demonstrate the extent towhich the field has advanced thanks to (i) the increasing availability and richness of island data, covering many taxonomicgroups and islands; (ii) new information from the geosciences, phylogenetics and palaeoecology, which allows us a morerealistic understanding of the geological and biological development of islands and their biotas; and (iii) the new theoreticaland methodological advances that allow us to assess patterns of abundance, diversity and distribution of island biota overlarge spatial scales. Most other papers in the issue cover a range of topics related to plant conservation on islands, such ascauses and consequences ofmutualistic disruptions (due to pollinator or disperser losses, introduction of alien predators, etc.).Island biologists are increasingly considering reintroducing ecologically important species to suitable habitats within theirhistoric range and to neighbouring islands with depauperate communities of vertebrate seed dispersers, and an instructiveexample is given here. Finally, contributions on ecological networks demonstrate the usefulness of this methodological tool toadvancing conservationmanagement and better predicting the consequences of disturbances on species and interactions inthe fragile insular ecosystems.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2016
FD 2016
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