Researchers find evidence that island biodiversity really is different from mainland
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- Sometimes in science, despite what might seem obvious, researchers still need to perform studies to prove what everyone seems to know is true, because sometimes its not. In the case of island biodiversity, however, what has been believed to be true, appears to be so. A combined team of British and American researchers has undertaken a study of the turnover rate of two animal species that live on both Caribbean islands and mainland Central and South America, and have found, as they report in their paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, that the rate does appear to be higher for the island group.