Biogeography of Amazonian fishes (2,500 species in vastly disjunct lineages) is complex and has so far been approached only partially. Here, we tackle the problem on the basis of the largest database ...

Lately we've been learning about the field of island biogeography, but so far every example we've looked at has been... an island. Today we're changing that by taking a look at three places that ...

Diatoms are a keystone algal group, with diverse cell morphology and a global distribution. The biogeography of morphological, functional, and life-history traits of marine diatoms were investigated ...

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a vulnerable wildlife species that belongs to the family Ailuridae, which is endemic to Carnivora (Yu et al., 2011). The species lives mainly in temperate forests in ...

The physiology and ecology of complex microbial communities are strongly dependent on the immediate surroundings of each microbe, including the identity of neighboring microbes; however, information ...

In the 1960s, the US ceased all trade with Cuba. The embargo choked the flow of goods between the nations, turning Cuba into an economic island as well as a physical one, with severe repercussions for ...

This article defines ecosystem functional properties, which can be derived from long-term observations of gas and energy exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere, and shows that variations of ...

Since the eighteenth century, biologists have investigated plant and animal biogeography, but only recently have the distributions of microorganisms been examined. We consider microbial biogeography ...