Authors
Jairo Patiño, Robert J Whittaker, Paulo AV Borges, José María Fernández‐Palacios, Claudine Ah‐Peng, Miguel B Araújo, Sergio P Ávila, Pedro Cardoso, Josselin Cornuault, Erik J de Boer, Lea de Nascimento, Artur Gil, Aarón González‐Castro, Daniel S Gruner, Ruben Heleno, Joaquín Hortal, Juan Carlos Illera, Christopher N Kaiser‐Bunbury, Thomas J Matthews, Anna Papadopoulou, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jonathan P Price, Ana MC Santos, Manuel J Steinbauer, Kostas A Triantis, Luis Valente, Pablo Vargas, Patrick Weigelt, Brent C Emerson
Publication date
2017/5
Journal
Journal of Biogeography
Volume
44
Issue
5
Pages
963-983
Description
Aims
The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review and identify key research foci that could advance island biology. Here, we take a collaborative horizon‐scanning approach to identify 50 fundamental questions for the continued development of the field.
Location
Worldwide.
Methods
We adapted a well‐established methodology of horizon scanning to identify priority research questions in island biology, and initiated it during the Island Biology 2016 conference held in the Azores. A multidisciplinary working group prepared an initial pool of 187 questions. A series of online surveys was then used to refine a list of the 50 top priority questions. The final shortlist was restricted to questions with a broad conceptual scope, and which should be answerable through achievable research …
Scholar articles
J Patiño, RJ Whittaker, PAV Borges… - Journal of Biogeography, 2017