@article {198,
	title = {The tempo and mode of evolution: body sizes of island mammals},
	journal = {EvolutionEvolution},
	volume = {65},
	number = {7},
	year = {2011},
	note = {Raia, PasqualeMeiri, Shaieng2011/07/07 06:00Evolution. 2011 Jul;65(7):1927-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01263.x. Epub 2011 Mar 19.},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {1927-34},
	abstract = {The tempo and mode of body size evolution on islands are believed to be well known. It is thought that body size evolves relatively quickly on islands toward the mammalian modal value, thus generating extreme cases of size evolution and the island rule. Here, we tested both theories in a phylogenetically explicit context, by using two different species-level mammalian phylogenetic hypotheses limited to sister clades dichotomizing into an exclusively insular and an exclusively mainland daughter nodes. Taken as a whole, mammals were found to show a largely punctuational mode of size evolution. We found that, accounting for this, and regardless of the phylogeny used, size evolution on islands is no faster than on the continents. We compared different selection regimes using a set of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models to examine the effects of insularity of the mode of evolution. The models strongly supported clade-specific selection regimes. Under this regime, however, an evolutionary model allowing insular species to evolve differently from their mainland relatives performs worse than a model that ignores insularity as a factor. Thus, insular taxa do not experience statistically different selection from their mainland relatives.},
	keywords = {*Biological Evolution, *Body Size, Animals, Environment, Geography, Mammals/genetics/growth \& development/*physiology, Models, Genetic, Phenotype, Phylogeny, Selection, Genetic},
	isbn = {1558-5646 (Electronic)0014-3820 (Linking)},
	author = {Raia, P. and Meiri, S.}
}
@article {202,
	title = {Have we overstated the tropical biodiversity crisis?},
	journal = {Trends Ecol EvolTrends Ecol EvolTrends in Ecology \& Evolution},
	volume = {22},
	number = {2},
	year = {2007},
	note = {Laurance, William FengEngland2006/10/03 09:00Trends Ecol Evol. 2007 Feb;22(2):65-70. Epub 2006 Sep 29.},
	month = {Feb},
	pages = {65-70},
	abstract = {Tropical forests are the most biologically diverse and ecologically complex of terrestrial ecosystems, and are disappearing at alarming rates. It has long been suggested that rapid forest loss and degradation in the tropics, if unabated, could ultimately precipitate a wave of species extinctions, perhaps comparable to mass extinction events in the geological history of the Earth. However, a vigorous debate has erupted following a study by Wright and Muller-Landau that challenges the notion of large-scale tropical extinctions, at least over the next century. Here, I summarize this controversy and describe how the debate is stimulating a serious examination of the causes and biological consequences of future tropical deforestation.},
	keywords = {*Biodiversity, *Ecosystem, *Trees, *Tropical Climate, Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Environment, Extinction, Biological, Forestry, Human Activities, Humans, Population Density, Social Planning},
	isbn = {0169-5347 (Print)0169-5347 (Linking)},
	author = {Laurance, W. F.}
}
