Journal of Biogeography

Evolutionary Islands: 150 Years After Darwin
To celebrate the year of Darwin 2009, the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity 'Naturalis', together with the Darwin Center for Biogeology (based in Utrecht), held the symposium Evolutionary Islands: 150 Years After Darwin (11–13 February 2009) at the Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands. The theme of the symposium was to explore the contribution of islands to our understanding of evolutionary biology and to analyse the role of island biological processes in a world in which the insularity of island and mainland ecosystems is being drastically altered. This issue contains papers that attempt to reconstruct the biodiversity effects of geological life cycles of oceanic islands, isolated mountain peaks, and freshwater lakes. And it encompasses studies of organisms with a wide variety of dispersal modes and propensities, ranging from the sessile (e.g. lizards) to the vagile (e.g. spiders).
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Conservation Biogeography
Richard J. Ladle, Robert J. Whittaker

The newly emerged sub-discipline of conservation biogeography uses the conceptual tools and methods of biogeography to address real world conservation problems and to provide predictions about the fate of key species and ecosystems over the next century. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the field in a series of closely interlinked chapters addressing the central issues within this exciting and important subject.

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Tiny Snails survive digestion by birds - read journal coverage in BBC Nature.

Researchers Analyse the Evolving Human Relationship with Fire- read the latest journal press release.

Mountain Ranges May Act as ‘Safe Haven’ for Species Facing Climate Change
Swiss researchers studying the projected effects of climate change on alpine plant species have discovered that mountain ranges may represent a ‘safer’ place to live during changing climate conditions. The research, published in the Journal of Biogeography, finds that the habitat diversity of mountain ranges offer species ‘refuge habitats’ which may be important for conservation.

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A biogeographical perspective on ecological systems: some personal reflections
Robert E. Ricklefs

A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions
Kreft, H. and Jetz, W

Other articles of interest
Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua
Knud A. Jønsson, Rauri C. K. Bowie, Johan A. A. Nylander, Les Christidis, Janette A. Norman and Jon Fjeldså

Relative need for conservation assessments of vascular plant species among ecoregions
Xingli Giam, Navjot S. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook, Hugh T. W. Tan and Corey J. A. Bradshaw