Thomas Matthews

Abstract Evolutionary radiations on oceanic archipelagos (ROAs) have long served as models for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes underlying species diversification. Yet, diversity patterns emerging from ROAs have received relatively little attention from biogeographers, even though characterizing the effect of key geo-environmental factors on island clades species distribution could be important for unraveling diversification dynamics.

Editor’s summary Human activities are a leading cause of species extinctions, either directly or indirectly, for millennia. Matthews et al. investigated how extinctions have affected global bird diversity, specifically in terms of birds’ traits and evolutionary history (see the Perspective by Kemp).

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