Quantifying the magnitude of the global extinction crisis is important but remains
challenging, as many extinction events pass unnoticed owing to our limited taxonomic …

Indonesia is home to five species of porcupines, three of which are island endemics. While
all five species are currently assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List of …

Aim Research in island biogeography has long focused mainly on present‐day island
configurations. Recently, there has been an increasing focus on islands' past histories of …

Trade represents a significant threat to many wild species and is often clandestine and
poorly monitored. Information on which species are most prevalent in trade and potentially …

The Kangean islands are a biologically poorly known archipelago situated in the Java Sea,
Indonesia, approximately 120 km directly north of Bali. These islands host an avifauna …

Nias is the largest of a chain of islands off the west coast of Sumatra. Historically, it received
extensive attention from ornithologists, leading to the description of numerous endemic …

Birds occur on all continents and all but the smallest islands, inhabit a great variety of habitat
types, and some species have adapted to novel anthropogenic environments. The majority …

We here describe a new subspecies of the white-rumped shama Copsychus malabaricus
from the western islands of the Thai Malay Peninsula. The new subspecies is …

Birds occur in diverse habitat types but the majority of the world's species are dependent on
forests. Many of the general patterns we observe in global forest bird communities reflect …

Bangkaru Island, the largest uninhabited island in the Pulau Banyak archipelago, lies 75 km
west of Sumatra and is part of Aceh province (Figure 1). The neighbouring islands of …