Island ecology and contingent theory: the role of spatial scale and taxonomic bias

摘要: Scale, the scale dependency of patterns and processes, ways that organisms their responses to these processes are central island landscape ecology. Here, we take a database studies in ecology investigate how have changed over 40-year period with respect spatial studied. We demonstrate there been changes islands studied is taxonomic bias favour vertebrates ecological when compared scientific publications as whole. discuss such may arisen implications for biogeography.