Oceanic archipelagos: a perspective on the geodynamics and biogeography of the World’s smallest biotic provinces

<p>Since the contributions of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, oceanic archipelagos have played a central role in the development of biogeography. However, despite the critical influence of oceanic islands on ecological and evolutionary theory, our focus has remained limited to either...

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Published in:	Frontiers of Biogeography
Main Authors:	Kostas Triantis, Robert J. Whittaker, José María Fernández-Palacios, Dennis J. Geist
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pensoft Publishers 2016-07-01
Subjects:	Diversity, island biogeography, hotspot, mantle, macroecology, macroevolution, meta-archipelagos, subsidence, island evolution, volcanic islands
Online Access:	http://escholarship.org/uc/item/744009b2