There is general agreement among scientists that biodiversity is under assault on a global
basis and that species are being lost at a greatly enhanced rate. This article examines the role …

As rates of deforestation continue to rise in many parts of the tropics, the international
conservation community is faced with the challenge of finding approaches which can reduce …

BACKGROUND Ever since Darwin, natural scientists have turned to islands for inspiration
and for model systems. For the past half century, they have done so largely within the …

… Whittaker 2002). Placing island ecological studies into a scale framework, helps us
reconcile apparently contradictory hypotheses as actually being relevant to different spatio-temporal …

… Outwith the Whittaker/Cody tiers, comparisons are sometimes made between large regions
… Thus, there is no set spatial scale that corresponds to the Cody or Whittaker tiers, and indeed…

Biogeography, first published in 1983, is one of the most comprehensive text and general
reference books in the natural sciences. The fifth edition builds on the strengths of previous …

Aim MacArthur and Wilson’s dynamic equilibrium model of island biogeography provides a
powerful framework for understanding the ecological processes acting on insular populations…

Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and the
maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a global …

Aim Concern over the implications of climate change for biodiversity has led to the use of
species–climate ‘envelope’ models to forecast risks of species extinctions under climate …

… KJ Willis and RJ Whittaker are in the School of Geography and the Environment,
University of Oxford. … Whittaker [email protected] … Whittaker …