KnowraIsland ruleLinked fromLinked fromThe 14 pages that link to Island rule, each with the reason it gives.All 14Related 12Compared with 2MegafaunaRelated: Isolation can produce dwarf descendants of large mainland animals or giant descendants of small ones.Body sizeRelated: Isolation and altered ecological pressures can shift the size of large and small-bodied species.Island gigantismRelated: Island gigantism is the large-bodied side of this proposed size pattern.GigantismRelated: It places island gigantism within a wider pattern of size shifts.Insular dwarfismRelated: It describes the broader size shifts of which insular dwarfism is one direction.Body massRelated: Comparisons of fossil and living island species reveal shifts in body mass after isolation.Pleistocene megafauna extinctionRelated: Island populations sometimes survived after continental relatives vanished, raising questions about refuges and human pressure.Canid evolutionRelated: Insular canids provide cases for testing how isolation and resource limits influence body size.Late Pleistocene extinctionsRelated: Island populations sometimes survived after mainland relatives vanished, raising questions about refuge effects.HypercarnivoreRelated: Island hypercarnivores can evolve unusual body sizes when prey and competitors differ from mainland conditions.StegodontidaeRelated: Dwarf stegodonts on Flores and Sulawesi exemplify island-associated size reduction.Dwarf elephantRelated: The dwarf elephant exemplifies the rule’s prediction for large mammals.