Ian Abbott

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1 Introduction Continental islands serve as valuable models for studying the assembly of species into communities. Continental islands were once part of a continent but are now isolated by rising sea levels, typically located on shallow continental shelves (Whittaker et al. 2023). Within such island environments, the processes and patterns of community assembly and change are comparatively easy to observe.