Marine subsidies mediate patterns in avian island biogeography

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Obrist, Debora S., Hanly, Patrick J., Kennedy, Jeremiah C., Fitzpatrick, Owen T., Wickham, Sara B., Ernst, Christopher M., Nijland, Wiebe, Reshitnyk, Luba Y., Darimont, Chris T., Starzomski, Brian M., Reynolds, John D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2020
• Subjects: Ecology; Avian Island; British Columbia; Canada
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126081/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32156206; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0108

The classical theory of island biogeography, which predicts species richness using island area and isolation, has been expanded to include contributions from marine subsidies, i.e. subsidized island biogeography (SIB) theory. We tested the effects of marine subsidies on species diversity and populat...