Madli Jõks

University of Tartu · Department of Botany

Fragmented natural habitats, such as old-growth forests, have been often considered island-like systems. However, whereas the isolation of real islands is mostly a function of their spatial arrangement, the biodiversity of old-growth forest patches is also affected by how well the surrounding suboptimal habitats, such as younger forests, can suppor...

Aim: Geological processes of island growth and erosion, in addition to eustatic sea- level fluctuations, alter key physical properties of oceanic islands, such as area, eleva- tion and isolation over time. These dynamics operate over similar time-scales to the biogeographical processes of colonization, speciation and extinction, and thus should s...

Although islands as natural laboratories have held the attention of scientists for centuries, they continue to offer new study questions, especially in the context of the current biodiversity crisis. To date, habitat diversity on islands and spatial configuration of archipelagos have received less attention than classical island area and isolation....