As an experiment in online book reading clubs, I will share a series of pieces about a group of scientists that is reading and discussing the book, Island Biogeography Revisited-- are you willing to ...

Since the eighteenth century, biologists have investigated plant and animal biogeography, but only recently have the distributions of microorganisms been examined. We consider microbial biogeography ...

The International Biogeography Society (TIBS) has relaunched its flagship open-access scientific journal, Frontiers of Biogeography (FoB), on the ARPHA platform, where it will be co-published with ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers is advocating for convergent research that integrates the fields of biogeography and behavioral ecology to more rapidly respond to challenges associated with ...

Island biogeography theory, the idea that fragmented ecosystems have lower species richness per unit of area compared with contiguous habitats, has served as a useful conceptual model to understand ...

A reef parrotfish on Vitoria Seamount. (Photo by Hudson Pinheiro © California Academy of Sciences) The Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelago is the most eastward point ...

Derived from a meeting held at Harvard in October 2007 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The theory of island biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson.

At a presentation last week, two speakers described their travels. The first presenter described her hike across the French and Swiss Alps. Her photos were beautiful, and the flora and fauna were ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma has published a perspective article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences advocating for convergent ...