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Island Biogeography ...

Front cover image: Rapa (Austral Islands, French Polynesia) from Mt. Perahu. Photo by R. G. Gillespie, taken on an expedition fu ...

Island Biogeography Ecology, evolution, and conservation Second Edition Robert J. Whittaker School of Geography, University of O ...

3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Un ...

Island biogeography is an important subject for several reasons. First, it has been and remains a field which feeds ideas, theor ...

Hortal, Hugh Jenkyns, Richard Ladle, Mark Lomolino, Águedo Marrero, Aurelio Martín, Bob McDowall, Leopoldo Moro, Manuel Nogales, ...

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Part I: Islands as Natural Laboratories Preface and acknowledgements v 1 The natural laboratory paradigm 2 Island environments ...

PART I Islands as Natural Laboratories The basaltic massif of Teno is one of the oldest parts of the island of Tenerife (Canary ...

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... it is not too much to say that when we have mastered the difficulties presented by the peculiarities of island life we shall ...

height, lying a further 180 km further out in the Pacific. We might be interested in analysing how biological properties of thes ...

Remote island biotas differ from those of con- tinents in a number of ways, being generally species- poor and disharmonic (pecul ...

and Wilson were not the first to recognize or theorize about the species–area effect—that plots of species number versus area ha ...

Whittaker 2002). Placing island ecological studies into a scale framework, helps us reconcile appar- ently contradictory hypothe ...