Determinants of bird species richness, endemism, and island network roles in Wallacea and the West Indies: is geography sufficient or does current and historical climate matter?

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 4; no. 20; pp. 4019 - 4031
• Main Authors: Dalsgaard, Bo, Carstensen, Daniel W., Fjeldså, Jon, Maruyama, Pietro K., Rahbek, Carsten, Sandel, Brody, Sonne, Jesper, Svenning, Jens‐Christian, Wang, Zhiheng, Sutherland, William J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.10.2014; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Animal breeding; Archipelagoes; Biogeography; Birds; Caribbean; Climate; Climate change; current climate; Elevation; Endangered & extinct species; Endemism; Extinction; Geography; historical climate; Hypotheses; Immigration; Island biogeography; Islands; modularity; Modules; Oceans; Original Research; Oscillations; Roles; Speciation; Species extinction; Species richness; Wallacea; West Indies; Denmark; Wallacea; Aarhus Denmark; West Indies; species richness; modularity; historical climate; Wallacea; current climate; West Indies; Birds; island biogeography; endemism; Caribbean

Island biogeography has greatly contributed to our understanding of the processes determining species' distributions. Previous research has focused on the effects of island geography (i.e., island area, elevation, and isolation) and current climate as drivers of island species richness and ende...