Aim A major goal of island biogeography is to understand how island communities are assembled over time, and temporal isolation has been shown to affect species diversity. However, our knowledge of the indirect effect of temporal isolation on species diversity through other island characteristics is still limited, constraining our understanding of assembly processes on islands, particularly land‐bridge islands. The purpose her...

Aim A nested pattern (nestedness) in species composition is a frequent signature of insular communities. However, it remains unclear whether the drivers of nestedness are consistent across multiple island systems. Here, we investigated the pattern and drivers of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic nestedness in terrestrial mammal assemblages from 10 distinct island systems (archipelagos). Location Global. Time period Contem...

Summary Bacteria belonging to the genus Paenibacillus are recognized as rich sources of bioactive natural products. To date, there are few characterized siderophores from this genus. Here, through genome analysis, we identified a non‐ribosomal peptide biosynthetic gene cluster ( pae ) responsible for siderophore assembly in Paenibacillus elgii B69. The 12.8 kb gene cluster comprises six open reading frames encoding proteins si...