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The insular distribution function (IDF) provides a framework for predicting occupancy patterns for a species based on island area and isolation as proxies for extinction risk and colonization likelihood. While this model provides a conceptual bridge between island biogeography and metapopulation models, it has seen limited recent application in large part due to reliance on simplistic geometric measures of area and isolation. Here, we advance the implementation of the IDF by pulling from ecological niche modeling and landscape ecology to incorporate ecologically informed quantifications of area and isolation. We apply this framework to the montane sky\u2010islands of the Great Basin of the western United States, testing predictions for the Western Water Shrew (\n                    <jats:italic>Sorex navigator<\/jats:italic>\n                    ). Compared with those based on traditional geometric metrics, the ecologically informed IDFs produced a discriminant function with lower classification error, stronger class separation, and different biological conclusions regarding the species' inferred response to isolation and area. The results from the ecologically informed IDF provide a contrast to IDF based on geographic axes and the classical interpretations for the system. Specifically, the steeper slope and lower intercept of the ecologically informed IDF point toward a system structured not so strongly by extinction\u2010driven relaxation, but by a more compensatory trade\u2010off in which both colonization and extinction have shaped occupancy patterns. Simulations of false\u2010absence rates (which affect datasets in lesser\u2010sampled systems) showed that the same inferences persisted in the presence of incomplete sampling. These results highlight the potential of integrating contemporary approaches with classic biogeographic models, as well as strengthening and clarifying links between island biogeography and landscape ecology. 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