Luke Harmon

1 Introduction MacArthur and Wilson's (1967) equilibrium theory of island biogeography introduced a foundational framework for understanding patterns of biodiversity on islands. This original framework proposed that island species richness (the number of species on an island) would be stable at an equilibrium point between immigration and extinction rates, with dynamics that depend on island size and isolation.

Abstract Phylogenetic comparative methods are a broad suite of approaches for studying trait and species diversification using evolutionary trees. In spite of their substantial growth in sophistication and complexity in recent years, among the most commonly-employed phylogenetic comparative method continues to be a simple measure of the evolutionary correlation between variables, while accounting for the statistical non-independence in our data that arises from common descent.

Orlando Schwery Department of Biology, University of Idaho, Moscow, 83844 Idaho, USA New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, 87544 New Mexico, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 24061 Virginia, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 70803 Louisiana, USA Contribution: Formal analysis, ​Investigation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing Search for more papers by this author