The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited /

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

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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 probl...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 11 halftones. 100 line illus. 16 tables.
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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

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