Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule

By Mark V. Lomolino. 2005

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The generality of the island rule reexamined (2006, methodology): “We use both regression techniques suggested by Lomolino (2005): a regression of insular CBL on mainland CBL (expected to have a slope significantly lower than one if the island rule holds), and a regression of island CBL divided by mainland CBL on morphospecies-specific body mass.”
Size evolution in island lizards (2007, positive): “lution in insular environments and were therefore hypothesized to affect size in a predictable manner (Heaney, 1978; Lomolino, 2005).”
Dinosaurs and the island rule: The dwarfed dinosaurs from Haţeg Island (2010, methodology): “The island rule has been identified among mammals (Foster, 1964), birds (Clegg and Owens, 2002), and snakes (Boback and Guyer, 2003), but its occurrence in lizards and other groups is equivocal (Case, 1978; Lomolino, 2005).”
The role of frugivory in the diversification of bats in the Neotropics (2012, background): “In islands or continental island-like ecosystems, selection favours evolutionary convergence to optimal size (Lomolino, 2005; but see Raia et al., 2010).”
Quantitative genetics of growth and cryptic evolution of body size in an island population (2007, background): “While such island effects are generally viewed as arising from selective forces (Lomolino 2005), here size is declining despite evidence of positive directional selection (Milner et al.”
The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns (2006, background): “Recently these data were transcribed into digital files and re-analysed at a range of taxonomic levels (Lomolino, 2005), again confirming the generality of the island rule and, based on an updated literature review, suggesting that it applies not just to most mammals but to other vertebrates as well”
Adaptation and diversification on islands (2009, background): “Another example is the ‘island rule,’ the tendency — contested by some 64 — for small mammals to become larger and for large mammals to become smaller 65 .”
The island syndrome in lizards (2013, background): “in species richness), and hence in the traits of organisms inhabiting it (Heaney, 1978; Melton, 1982; Lomolino, 2005; cf. Meiri et al., 2005).”
The island rule and the evolution of body size in the deep sea (2006, background): “…larger in the absence of former competitors, insular populations of small-bodied species can use broader resource bases (competitive release: Lomolino, 2005), and large-bodied animals may experience selection towards smaller body size due to resource limitation on islands (resource…”
Of mice and mammoths: generality and antiquity of the island rule (2013, background): “As observed in previous studies (Lomolino, 1985, 2005), insular body sizes were higher for mammals utilizing aquatic prey (e.g. fish, aquatic invertebrates and carcasses of marine mammals) than for those restricted to feeding on terrestrial plants or animals.”
Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree (2014, methodology): “It has been argued that clade-optimal body sizes exist, but interspecific competition hinders many mainland species from attaining them (Brown et al., 1993; Lomolino, 2005; cf. Raia et al., 2010b).”
Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands (2011, background): “Empirical evidence from terrestrial vertebrate studies provides mixed support for this rule (Clegg & Owens, 2002; Boback & Guyer, 2003; Lomolino, 2005; Meiri, 2007), with the best support coming from data for mammals (Lomolino, 1985; Price & Phillimore, 2007; Welch, 2009; but see Meiri et al.,…”