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Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness (2016)
Journal Article
Tukiainen, H., Bailey, J. J., Field, R., Kangas, K., & Hjort, J. (in press). Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness. Conservation Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12799

Improved understanding of threatened species diversity is important for long-term conservation planning and natural area management, especially under ongoing global change. Geodiversity – the diversity of earth surface materials, forms and processes... Read More about Combining geodiversity with climate and topography to account for threatened species richness.

Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation (2016)
Journal Article
Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., Grytnes, J. A., Trigas, P., Ah-Peng, C., Attore, F., …De Sanctis, M. (2016). Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(9), 1097-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12469

Aim: Higher-elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to test the generality of the predicted pattern. We also compare it emp... Read More about Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation.

New directions in island biogeography (2016)
Journal Article
Santos, A. M., Field, R., & Ricklefs, R. E. (in press). New directions in island biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12477

Aim: Much of our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes comes from island research. With the increasing availability of data on distributions and phylogenetic relationships and new analytical approaches to understanding the pr... Read More about New directions in island biogeography.

Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades (2016)
Journal Article
Steinbauer, M. J., Field, R., Fernández-Palacios, J., Irl, S. D., Rüdiger, O., Schaefer, H., & Beierkuhnlein, C. (2016). Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(7), 792-804. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12425

Aim: Ecological niche concepts, in combination with biogeographic history, underlie our understanding of biogeographic ranges. Two pillars of this understanding are competitive displacement and niche conservatism. The competitive displacement hypothe... Read More about Biogeographic ranges do not support niche theory in radiating Canary Island plant clades.