Island settings provide a natural laboratory for examining how dispersal, speciation and extinction interact against a backdrop of dynamic geology. The evolutionary biogeography of island faunas ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

New research led by scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by comparing anatomy rather than gene sequences is ...

From fragile ferns to towering trees, NMNH botanist Warren Wagner has spent over 30 years researching plants from the dense forests of the Pacific Islands. Emma Saaty Warren Wagner seemingly has a ...

Africa has a huge diversity of large mammals, but their evolutionary relationships and movement across the continent over time often remain a mystery. A new scientific study sheds light on ...

Island biogeography examines how species colonise, diversify and vanish in isolated environments. Classical theory emphasises the roles of island size and distance from the mainland in determining ...

Introduction to the history and geography of neotropical mammals / Bruce D. Patterson and Leonora P. Costa -- Punctuated isolation : the making and mixing of South America's mammals / Darin A. Croft - ...

Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos Islands of ...

Drew researches evolutionary biogeography, global change ecology, and conservation. His PhD research focused on landscape genomics, and he has since worked on a variety of conservation initiatives at ...

Introduction -- Ecologically meaningful germination studies -- Types of seeds and kinds of seed dormancy -- Germination ecology of seeds with nondeep physiological dormancy -- Germination ecology of ...

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 ...