Cover

Abstract

On the Cover: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Journal of Biogeography, the cover is comprised of five circles representing each of the journal's five decades and papers in the current issue. Centre: Chorthippus cazurroi (Bolívar, 1898) is a grasshopper that inhabits the summits of the eastern Cantabrian Mountains (Spain); photograph by Eva de Mas; Laiolo et al. pp. 282–290. Top right: Flavocetraria nivalis (crinkled snow lichen) is a common lichen in the arctic and subarctic tundra of the Northern Hemisphere; photograph by Max Mallen-Cooper; pp. 406–417. Top left: Semi-arid mixed conifer-eucalypt forests are an important and widespread forest type in Australia that, despite being subject to frequent droughts, appears resilient to both selective harvesting and infrequent wildfires, based on 55-year tree growth measurements from a forest in New South Wales; photograph by Mathias Neumann; pp. 291–301. Bottom left: Dascyllus abudafur and D. marginatus from the Red Sea have similar ecologies but differing biogeographies; photograph by Robert F. Myers; Robitzch et al. pp. 380–392. Bottom right: The cover of the first issue (March 1974) and initial 14 volumes of the Journal of Biogeography were graced by this circular logo; the golden text celebrates the journal's 50th year.