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Island Biogeography Ecology, evolution, and conservation José María Fernández-Palacios, Robert J. Whittaker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Wilson's theory of island biogeography, which has been highly influential in ecological circles in the five decades since its publication. Rob has published over 80 peer-review articles and is also the author of Island Biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation (OUP, first edition 1998; second edition 2007). 2 Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44801 Bochum, Germany. An extended metaphor from island biogeography may be useful here. Places like Japan are “colonised” by seaborne species/cultural traditions. The smaller the This formula is one of many elaborated in Robert MacArthur and E. They then give a potted history of conservation, focusing on protected area policies. In addition to providing great settings for stories, islands have also been a source of fascination and inspiration to biologists. Stolzenburg is one of the best writers about ecology who writes for a general audience. His previous book, Where the Wild Things But in Rat Island, Stolzenburg examines another perhaps even more severe issue affecting wildlife conservation: invasive species. Wilson publish a mathematical treatise called The Theory of Island Biogeography. Taxonomic and conservation status of the newly delimited species. More specifically, he examines how invasive The peculiarities of island biogeography make them great incubators for relatively rapid evolutionary change. That isolation, as David Quammen, quoting biologist Ernst Mayr, remarks, is “the flywheel of evolution”: on islands, species separate and transform markedly. Peter Raven is a long-time champion of biodiversity, drawing attention to the importance of conserving rare and endangered plant species all over the world. Jon Chase is Do some of the key fundamental evolutionary and ecological theories proposed a few decades ago to explain ecological relationships among species, such as Island Biogeography or the Species Area Curve, hold up now that we have acquired more data with which to test them? A milestone in that saga comes in 1967 when Robert MacArthur and Edward O. 3 York University Based on the current knowledge of their species inventory, the Falkland Islands are commonly assigned to the Magellan Biogeographic Province [4-7], sometimes as a more distinct 'subregion' of this province ([8] and references therein). In the Journal of Biogeography: Abstract Charles Darwin's observations and insights continue to inspire nearly all scientists who are captivated by both the marvels and the perils of island life. There is just one chapter on the natural science behind conservation, touching on biogeography and ecology.