Birds and mammals are the only vertebrates which receive comprehensive attention in
studies of dispersal of fleshy-fruited plant species. However, recently the importance of …

An updated and extensively revised checklist of the arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican
Republic and Haiti) is presented 11 years after the publication of the original in 2008. It …

Species-rich adaptive radiations typically diversify along several distinct ecological axes,
each characterized by morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations. We test …

Urbanization is intensifying worldwide, and while some species tolerate and even exploit
urban environments, many others are excluded entirely from this new habitat …

As more data have become available on lizard diets in the past few decades, researchers
have stressed the importance of lizards as pollinators and seed dispersers. Whereas large …

ABSTRACT A widely accepted biodiversity crisis in the tropics has been recently challenged
by claims that secondary forests will gradually restore biodiversity losses. This prediction …

Insular species are predicted to broaden their niches, in response to having fewer
competitors. They can thus exploit a greater proportion of the resource spectrum. In turn …

The predominant natural habitat of Anguilla is an evergreen scrub forest, much of it
degraded by feral goats. The island is comprised of a patchwork of variously altered …

The distributions of lizards across habitat edges delimiting open‐forest and regenerating
sand‐mined areas as a function of distance from the edge were studied at Tomago, New …

Caribbean Anolis lizards are often cited as a textbook example of adaptive radiation. Similar
morphologies (ecomorphs) have originated in similar ecological settings on different large …