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fine scale of analysis, the ‘island’ assumption is at least a rational starting point for thinking about the SLOSS question. How ...

islands, thereby making such sites less suitable for, or removing altogether, particular species (McGuinness 1984; Simberloff an ...

Gatun in 1914. Of about 208 bird species estimatedto have been breeding on Barro Colorado island immediately following isolation ...

Ribonet al. 2003; Grelle et al. 2005), although many species are Red-listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered b ...

272 ISLAND THEORY AND CONSERVATION Box 10.2 Does island theory provide a basis for the use of species–area regressions to predic ...

RELATION AND TURNOVER—THE EVIDENCE 273 relationship between the percentage of forest loss on a regional basis and regional speci ...

isolated, the land surrounding others was abandoned during the study and became infilled by forest regrowth dominated by Cecropi ...

relevant to management plans. Simplified repre- sentations of woodland dynamics view a stand of trees as going through phases of ...

presences and unexpected absences. He used it to identify what he termed holes and outliers. Holes are where widespread species ...

surrounded by a non-woodland matrix. For some species groups, possession of a large expanse of such edge habitat can increase th ...

the forest edges than in the interior because of higher densities of nest predators—e.g. blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata), weasel ...

the fluvial geomorphologist may be a means of understanding species distributions within the landscape (Fig. 10.10), and of unde ...

subject to large-scale phenomena such as drought and severe winters may not be protected from such die-offs by population subdiv ...

were most parsimoniously explained by reference to the roles of introduced predators (foxes and cats) and herbivores (rabbits an ...

configuration must take account of the details of the landscape involved (e.g. Fahrig and Merriam 1994). For instance, there may ...

large areas of unreserved land. They see this as the only viable answer in the long term, requiring a broad educational and poli ...

deriving general principles for reserve systems from island theory. Increasingly, the resulting lines of reasoning have been att ...

species. In this sense, ‘island’ approaches have pro- duced some dividends. It is now a question of learning what they are, and ...

prey species may be maintained, with potentially significant consequences further down the food chain. Thus, the densities of me ...

10.13 Concluding remarks: from island biogeography to countryside biogeography? As made clear at the outset of this chapter, thi ...