A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of "The Theory of Island Biogeography"

• Published in: Journal of biogeography Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 963 - 983
• Main Authors: Patiño, Jairo, Whittaker, Robert J., Borges, Paulo A.V., Fernández-Palacios, José María, Ah-Peng, Claudine, Araújo, Miguel B., Ávila, Sergio P., Cardoso, Pedro, Cornuault, Josselin, de Boer, Erik J., de Nascimento, Lea, Gil, Artur, González-Castro, Aarón, Gruner, Daniel S., Heleno, Ruben, Hortal, Joaquín, Illera, Juan Carlos, Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N., Matthews, Thomas J., Papadopoulou, Anna, Pettorelli, Nathalie, Price, Jonathan P., Santos, Ana M. C., Steinbauer, Manuel J., Triantis, Kostas A., Valente, Luis, Vargas, Pablo, Weigelt, Patrick, Emerson, Brent C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.05.2017; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Azores; biocenosis; biodiversity conservation; Biogeography; Biology; Climate change; Community ecology; extinction; global change; Interdisciplinary research; Introduced species; Invasive species; Island biogeography; island biogeography theory; island biology; island evolution; island macroecology; issues and policy; ontogeny; research priorities; Speciation; Species extinction; surveys; Azores

Aims The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review and identify key research foci that could advance island biology. Here, we take a collaborative horizon-scanning approach to...