The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited / / ed. by Jonathan B. Losos, Robert E. Ricklefs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baldwin, Bruce G.,; Brown, James H.,; Clegg, Sonya,; Collins, Michael D.,; Gillespie, Rosemary G.,; Grant, B. Rosemary,; Grant, Peter R.,; Hanski, Ilkka,; Holt, Robert D.,; Hubbell, Stephen P.,; Ladle, Richard J.,; Laurance, William F.,; Lomolino, Mark V.,; Losos, Jonathan B.,; May, Robert M.,; Orrock, L.,; Parent, Christine E.,; Ricklefs, Robert E.,; Sax, Dov F.,; Schoener, Thomas W.,; Simberloff, Daniel,; Terborgh, John,; Triantis, Kostas A.,; Vellend, Mark,; Whittaker, Robert J.,; Wilson, Edward O.,
• HerausgeberIn: Losos, Jonathan B.,; Ricklefs, Robert E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 11 halftones. 100 line illus. 16 tables.

Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's The Theory of Island Biogeography, first published by Princeton in 1967, is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. By developing a general mathematical theory to explain a crucial ecological problem--the regulation of species diversity in island populations--the book transformed the science of biogeography and ecology as a whole. In The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited, some of today's most prominent biologists assess the continuing impact of MacArthur and Wilson's book four decades after its publication. Following an opening chapter in which Wilson reflects on island biogeography in the 1960s, fifteen chapters evaluate and demonstrate how the field has extended and confirmed--as well as challenged and modified--MacArthur and Wilson's original ideas. Providing a broad picture of the fundamental ways in which the science of island biogeography has been shaped by MacArthur and Wilson's landmark work, The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited also points the way toward exciting future research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Island Biogeography in the 1960s -- Island Biogeography Theory -- The MacArthur- Wilson Equilibrium Model -- A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography: Extending the MacArthur- Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands -- The Trophic Cascade on Islands -- Toward a Trophic Island Biogeography -- The Theories of Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics -- Beyond Island Biogeography Theory -- Birds of the Solomon Islands -- Neutral Theory and the Theory of Island Biogeography -- Evolutionary Changes Following Island Colonization in Birds -- Sympatric Speciation, Immigration, and Hybridization in Island Birds -- Island Biogeography of Remote Archipelagoes -- Dynamics of Colonization and Extinction on Islands -- The Speciation-Area Relationship -- Ecological and Genetic Models of Diversity -- Index