Community assembly on isolated islands: macroecology meets evolution

摘要: Aim Understanding how ecological and evolutionary processes together determine patterns of biodiversity remains a central aim in biology.Guided by theory, we use data from multiple arthropod lineages across the Hawaiian archipelago to explore interplay between (population dynamics, dispersal, trophic interactions) (genetic structuring, adaptation, speciation, extinction) processes. Our goal is show communities develop dynamic feedbacks that operate at different temporal spatial scales. Location The islands (19–22° N, 155–160° W). Methods We synthesize genetic selected arthropods relative role dispersal situ differentiation island chronosequence. From four sites on three high with geological ages ranging 1 Myr. Herbivore–plant only transiently achieve statistical steady state during assembly, presumably due incomplete assembly early stages, increasing influence ontogeny older islands.