A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of <i>The Theory of Island Biogeography</i>

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Title: Journal of Biogeography

Abbreviated Title: J. Biogeogr.

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN: 03050270

Publication date Created: May 2017

Publication date (Print): May 2017

Publication date (Electronic): March 20 2017

Volume: 44

Issue: 5

Pages: 963-983

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[1 ]Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group; Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología; (IPNA-CSIC); La Laguna Tenerife Canary Islands Spain

[2 ]Centre for Ecology; Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c)/Azorean Biodiversity Group; University of the Azores; Angra do Heroísmo and Ponta Delgada Azores Portugal

[3 ]School of Geography and the Environment; University of Oxford; South Parks Road Oxford UK

[4 ]Center for Macroecology; Evolution and Climate; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Denmark

[5 ]Island Ecology and Biogeography Group; Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias (IUETSPC); Universidad de La Laguna; Tenerife Canary Islands Spain

[6 ]UMR PVBMT; University of La Réunion; Pôle de Protection des Plantes; Saint-Pierre La Réunion France

[7 ]CIBIO/InBio-UE: Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Universidade de Évora; Évora Portugal

[8 ]Department of Biogeography and Global Change; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); Madrid Spain

[9 ]CIBIO-Açores/INBIO: Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos and Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia; Universidade dos Açores; Ponta Delgada Açores Portugal

[10 ]Finnish Museum of Natural History; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland

[11 ]Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences; University of Groningen; Groningen The Netherlands

[12 ]Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics; University of Amsterdam; Amsterdam The Netherlands

[13 ]Department of Entomology; University of Maryland; College Park MD USA

[14 ]Department of Life Sciences; Centre for Functional Ecology; University of Coimbra; 3000 Coimbra Portugal

[15 ]Departamento de Ecologia; Instituto de Ciências Biologicas; Universidade Federal de Goiás; Goiânia GO Brazil

[16 ]Research Unit of Biodiversity (UO-CSIC-PA); Oviedo University; Campus of Mieres Research Building Asturias Spain

[17 ]Ecological Networks; Department of Biology; TU Darmstadt; Darmstadt Germany

[18 ]GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences); The University of Birmingham; Birmingham UK

[19 ]Department of Integrative Ecology; Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC); Seville Spain

[20 ]Institute of Zoology; Zoological Society of London; London UK

[21 ]University of Hawai'i at Hilo; Hilo HI USA

[22 ]Departmento de Ciencias de la Vida; Universidad de Alcalá; Alcalá de Henares Madrid Spain

[23 ]Section Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity; Department of Bioscience; Aarhus University; 8000 Aarhus C Denmark

[24 ]Department of Ecology and Taxonomy; Faculty of Biology; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Athens Greece

[25 ]Museum für Naturkunde; Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung; Berlin Germany

[26 ]Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (CSIC-RJB); Madrid Spain

[27 ]Biodiversity; Macroecology and Biogeography; Georg-August-University Göttingen; Göttingen Germany

[28 ]School of Biological Sciences; University of East Anglia; Norwich Research Park Norwich UK

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