What is the importance of islands to environmental conservation?

Evolution and Extinction of Land Snails on Oceanic Islands

(2016) Satoshi Chiba et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium

(2016) Neil Davies et al.   GigaScience

Collapsing avian community on a Hawaiian island

(2016) E. H. Paxton et al.   Science Advances

Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles

(2015) Sofia Terzopoulou et al.   Biology Letters

Towards a glacial-sensitive model of island biogeography

(2015) José María Fernández-Palacios et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The nutrient economy ofLodoicea maldivica, a monodominant palm producing the world's largest seed

(2015) Peter J. Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge

(2015) David E.V. Harter et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Embracing the sacred: an indigenous framework for tomorrow’s sustainability science

(2015) Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani et al.   Sustainability Science

Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)

(2015) JOSEP ANTONI ALCOVER et al.   ZOOTAXA

Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras

(2015) Patrick Weigelt et al.   Scientific Reports

Introduction—Losing the High Ground: Rapid Transformation of Tropical Island Alpine and Subalpine Environments

(2014) James Juvik et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Island biology: looking towards the future

(2014) C. Kueffer et al.   Biology Letters

2000 years of sustainable use of watersheds and coral reefs in Pacific Islands: A review for Palau

(2014) Shirley Koshiba et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Reconciling conflicting perspectives for biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene

(2013) Christoph Kueffer et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Bioclimatic and physical characterization of the world's islands

(2013) P. Weigelt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

(2013) A. Waldron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

(2013) R. P. Duncan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying island isolation - insights from global patterns of insular plant species richness

(2012) Patrick Weigelt et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Future climate change driven sea-level rise: secondary consequences from human displacement for island biodiversity

(2012) Florian T. Wetzel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Listen to the voices of experience

(2012) Esther Turnhout et al.   NATURE

Ecological Restoration in a Developing Island Nation: How Useful is the Science?

(2012) F. B. Vincent Florens et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Conservation of oceanic island floras: Present and future global challenges

(2010) Juli Caujapé-Castells et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Hearing local voices from Small Island Developing States for climate change

(2010) Ilan Kelman   Local Environment

Between-country collaboration and consideration of costs increase conservation planning efficiency in the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Kark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

(2009) G. Kier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recovery expenditures for birds listed under the US Endangered Species Act: The disparity between mainland and Hawaiian taxa

(2008) David L. Leonard   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The long-term ecology of the lost forests of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

(2008) Lea de Nascimento et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Avoiding collapse: Pre-European sustainability on Pacific Islands

(2007) Barry V. Rolett   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL