Patterns of invertebrate density and taxonomic richness across gradients of area, isolation, and vegetation diversity in a lake‐island system

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: Jonsson, Micael, Yeates, Gregor W., Wardle, David A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Lake Island; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05784.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0587.2009.05784.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05784.x

Over the past half century, ecologists have tried to unravel the factors that drive species richness patterns in ecological communities. One influential theory is island biogeography theory (IBT), which predicts that island or habitat area and isolation are drivers of species richness. However, rela...