Robert J. Whittaker
@rjwhittaker.bsky.social
Biogeographer, based in Oxford, UK, with particular interest in Island Biogeography
Reposted by Robert J. Whittaker
Two new papers to start your week! First, big distributions and little genetic divergence in the global biogeography of zoantharians: biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1742...
Global biogeography of zoantharians indicates a weak genetic differentiation between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans, and distinct communities in tropical and temperate provinces
Biogeographic patterns for marine fishes and scleractinian stony corals are well-established, but it is still unclear whether these patterns apply to the understudied marine invertebrates. Here we inv...
biogeography.pensoft.net
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Two new papers to start your week! First, big distributions and little genetic divergence in the global biogeography of zoantharians: biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1742...
Phytoplankton regionalism in natural mesocosm-like wetlands of an island archipelago in the Aegean Sea biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Interesting concept of triple insularity
Interesting concept of triple insularity
Phytoplankton regionalism in natural mesocosm-like wetlands of an island archipelago in the Aegean Sea
Wetlands are globally recognised as biodiversity refugia and critical climate regulators, yet they are increasingly threatened by human pressures. Although phytoplankton plays a foundational role in a...
biogeography.pensoft.net
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Phytoplankton regionalism in natural mesocosm-like wetlands of an island archipelago in the Aegean Sea biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Interesting concept of triple insularity
Interesting concept of triple insularity
Small-island effect is detected for both native and non-native seed plants in the largest archipelago of China - and shown for both species richness and phylogenetic diversity -https://biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=168932
Small-island effect is detected for both native and non-native seed plants in the largest archipelago of China
The small-island effect (SIE) describes a particular form of species–area relationship where species richness on small islands is independent of island area or relates to area in a different way than ...
biogeography.pensoft.net
January 23, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Small-island effect is detected for both native and non-native seed plants in the largest archipelago of China - and shown for both species richness and phylogenetic diversity -https://biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=168932
Fish species composition reflects geomorphology in the Western Amazon, the Earth's vertebrate biodiversity hotspot biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Fish species composition reflects geomorphology in the Western Amazon, the Earth's vertebrate biodiversity hotspot
Fishes of the Western Amazon exhibit the greatest diversity of any continental vertebrate fauna on Earth. Hypotheses to explain diversity patterns have focused on various ecological and evolutionary p...
biogeography.pensoft.net
January 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Fish species composition reflects geomorphology in the Western Amazon, the Earth's vertebrate biodiversity hotspot biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...