chaffinches 62, 203
Chagos Islands 323
Chalcides(skink) 181, 237
Chalopsitta cardinalis(parrot) 116
chance 115, 142
Channel Islands 100
Chappell Island (Bass Strait) 190
character displacement 176–7, 215, 216, 217, 240, 245
Charandrius dubius(plover) 276
Charles Darwin Research Station 328, 329
Chasiempis sandwichensis(elepaio) 222
Cheirodendron 226
Cheirolophus67, 230, 237
Chenopoidiaceae 184
chequerboard distributions 111–12, 115–18, 125, 127, 143
Chiroptera (flying fox) 69
Chiroxiphia caudate 254
Chitwan National Park (Nepal) 254–5
choros model 90, 97
Christmas Island 22, 24, 33, 55, 310, 338
Cicadae 227
cichlid fish in African Great Lakes 231, 240, 293
Cikobia island 20
CITES (Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species) 287
clades:
progressive 236
unresolved 237
cladistics 198
cladogenesis 206–8
cladograms 198, 237
Clarks Hill Reservoir islands (USA) 128
Clermontia(bellflower) 234, 237
Clethrionomys 119
climate/climatic 115, 185
change 26–7, 286, 290, 323–4
characteristics 32–6
filter 73
fluctuations 156, 160, 161
trade winds 35, 39
variation 338
wind 268
see alsoEl Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
phenomena; weather
clustered island groups 21–2
clutch sizes, small 190–1
Cneorum tricoccon(plant) 299
Coccoidea 327
cockatoos 279
Cocos Island 48, 197, 220, 221
finch 174, 204
Coenocorypha aucklandica(snipe) 159–60
colonization 85, 86
of another island 244
back-colonization 248
curve 85, 86, 92
deterministic 262–3
early 320
island theory and conservation 289
Krakatau 136–41
pattern, repeated 248
prehistoric 313–14
rates 100, 103, 119
recent 237
repeated from outside archipelago 237
scale and ecological theory 158
see alsorecolonization
Columba(bird) 191, 213, 276
Columbidae 122
Columbiformes 312, 313
combination rules 112–13, 114, 144
Commidendrum rotundifolium 317
community assembly and dynamics 107–44
anthropogenic experiments: competitive effects 125–6
assembly patterns and habitat factors 122–5
assembly rules 108
chequerboard distributions 111
combination and compatibility 111–13
criticisms, null hypothesis and responses 113–18
dynamics of island assembly 110–11
incidence functions 118–22
incidence functions and tramps 108–10
nestedness 126–9
see alsoKrakatau: succession, dispersal structure and
hierarchies
Comoros 69
compatibility 111–13, 144
compensatory effects 120, 121
competition/competitive 105
arrival and change 173
community assembly and dynamics 114, 115, 116, 117,
119, 144
diffuse 104
effects 125–6
emergent models of evolution 238–9
hypothesis 185
speciation model 207
Compositae: see Asteraceae
composite cone volcano 42
conservation:
biogeography 48, 252
biology 251
see alsoconservation of ecosystems; theory and
conservation
conservation of ecosystems 323–41
biological control 331
Canary islands: protected area and species protection
systems 333–7386 INDEX