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Island ecology examines how plants and other organisms evolve, disperse, and interact within the isolated, bounded environments of islands. The unique conditions of islands — geographic isolation, limited gene flow, and abundant unfilled ecological niches — drive rapid speciation and the evolution of striking plant adaptations found nowhere else on Earth. For plant scientists, island ecosystems serve as natural laboratories for studying colonization dynamics, adaptive radiation, and the vulnerability of endemic flora to extinction.

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