The University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawai’i) hosted the very first international conference on "Island Biology" from July 7th - 11th. As indicated in the opening session by the conference chair Donald Drake (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and co-chairs José-Maria Fernandez-Palacios (La Laguna University, Canary Islands) and Christoph Kueffer (ETH Zürich), the conference was organized in response to the major new wave of island biological...