Frontiers of Biogeography

Looking south across the island of Mecherchar, Palau.  Four of the archipelago’s >50 marine lakes are visible:  Ongeim’l Tketau (Jellyfish Lake) is in the foreground, with the crocodile and L-shaped lakes complex centre-right.  In this issue, Blanchette & colleagues develop a preliminary physical model to help understand the drivers of community assembly and population dynamics in these insular systems.  This photo used with permission, Copyright 2008 Christoph Gerigk, all rights reserved.