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a random community, without reference to particular patterns of turnover. Connor and McCoy (1979) term thispassive sampling, and ...

the point we develop later, that the EMIB holds rel- evance to far more restricted geographical circum- stances than many of its ...

version of the EMIB, but are not necessarily inconsistent with equilibrium theories. Several authors have developed more formal ...

authors or reviewers to be uninteresting. One example of no relationship is provided by Dunn and Loehle (1988) who examined a se ...

scenarios by such means. Studies of non-volant mammals on isolated mountain tops in western North America by J. H. Brown and col ...

exchange species moderately frequently, species– area relationships may be detectable at the archipelago level. Moreover, taxa c ...

(e.g. sea-dispersed vs bird-dispersed plants) can differ greatly, which may also serve to shape the form of species–area compari ...

ISLAND SPECIES NUMBERS AND ISARS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT? 95 Rosenzweig (1995, 2004) has developed an alternative typology of speci ...

96 SPECIES NUMBERS GAMES: THE MACROECOLOGY OF ISLAND BIOTAS models against empirical data sets rather than setting out to find t ...

ISLAND SPECIES NUMBERS AND ISARS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT? 97 Species–energy theory—a step towards a more complete island species ri ...

98 SPECIES NUMBERS GAMES: THE MACROECOLOGY OF ISLAND BIOTAS bringing climate-based energy availability into analyses of island s ...

whether faunal region entered their models. Starting with the individual variables, they find constraining (triangular) relation ...

This question is of fundamental importance to applications of island thinking to conservation (Chapter 10). Pseudoturnover and c ...

TURNOVER 101 of small islets within a Swedish lake. Even with con- sistent survey techniques, they achieved at best only 79% eff ...

102 SPECIES NUMBERS GAMES: THE MACROECOLOGY OF ISLAND BIOTAS publication). A number of analyses of these phenomena have used for ...

TURNOVER 103 The path to equilibrium One of the few rigorous tests of the process of colonization and development of equilibrium ...

104 SPECIES NUMBERS GAMES: THE MACROECOLOGY OF ISLAND BIOTAS expectation that, on the whole, the rarest species on a particular ...

TURNOVER 105 Rosenzweig (1995) invokes both competition and predation as reasons why extinction rates should rise with increasin ...

106 SPECIES NUMBERS GAMES: THE MACROECOLOGY OF ISLAND BIOTAS important than competition in determining extinc- tion probabilitie ...

... studies of island biogeography show that a commu- nity is not simply a collection of all those who somehow arrived at the ha ...