biogeography
Tramps in Transition: Wallacea’s monarch flycatchers and their evolutionary natural experiment
A warm welcome back to all our readers! The new year is now well and truly upon us and we hope you've all had a safe and energised return to work. This blog is written by Fionn Ó Marcaigh, summarising his new paper. Congratulations Fionn and we hope our readers enjoy learning about your research […]
Evolution in the understorey
What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of evolution? Possibly a line of cartoon primates marching, slouching monkeys at one end and naked men with spears at the other. Or a branching tree diagram where each twig represents an organism, maybe with a tentative “I think” scribbled above it. Alternatively, […]
Shy birds hiding evolutionary insights: cryptic sexual dimorphism in the Sulawesi Babbler
PhD student Fionn Ó Marcaigh on his research investigating sexual dimorphism in the Sulawesi Babbler
Birds in paradise: biogeography in the subtropics
The species-area relationship is considered one of the only ‘rules’ in ecology. We have observed more species on larger ‘islands’ (whether true islands or simply some habitat patch of interest) in studies of different plants and animals all around the world. When MacArthur and Wilson (1967) proposed this pattern and the pioneering biogeographical principles which […]