The islands of the Wallacean biodiversity hotspot support diverse and highly endemic bird
communities, yet remain ornithologically poorly studied. There is a particular paucity of data …

Birds are a frequently chosen group for biodiversity monitoring as they are comparatively
straightforward and inexpensive to sample and often perform well as ecological indicators …

The Wakatobi Islands are an archipelago of deep-sea islands lying off the south-east
peninsula of Sulawesi. Despite being recognised as an Important Bird Area, the avifauna of …

Tropical islands hold great treasures of Earth's biodiversity, but these fragile ecosystems
may be lost before their diversity is fully catalogued or the evolutionary processes that …

We present the first inventory of the avifauna of Menui, a small (about 9,000 ha) island 53 km
off the south-east coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Formal mist-netting surveys and road-based …

Global biodiversity is poorly understood, despite its importance for humanity. As biodiversity
loss reaches critical levels, greater knowledge of its distribution is needed to concentrate …

The biodiversity hotspot of Wallacea, Indonesia, is notable for its high endemism and its
mixed fauna of both Asian and Australasian origin (Myers et al. 2000, Whitten et al. 2002 …

There is an urgent need to conserve biodiversity in human-modified landscapes throughout
the tropics. Animal conservation has traditionally focused on single species, but it remains …

The endemic avifauna of the Wallacean biodiversity 'hotspot'which includes Sulawesi
(Myers et al. 2000) has been little studied compared with other parts of tropical Asia …