lack of 337
resources 36–7
wattsi series 216, 217
weather:
actual evapotranspiration 97
cyclonic storms 246
freezes 158
hurricanes 39–41, 156–7, 255–6
storm vulnerability 338
tsunamis 43–4, 158
Weber’s line 52
weevils 201, 217
West Indies 72, 115, 200
conservation of ecosystems 339–40
emergent models of evolution 213, 214
species numbers 79, 81
Western Ghats 47
Wilkesia66, 228, 235
wind 268
pollinationseeanemophily
Windward Islands 67
woodiness 184–6, 202
woodlands 135
woolly mammoth 189
World Heritage Site 328, 333
World Wildlife Fund 47, 48, 284, 340
worms 227, 296
Wrangel Island 189
wren 258
Wurmbea 238Xylocopa darwini(bee) 180Zapus 119
Zosterops japonica(white–eye) 318, 319
Zosterops lateralis(silvereye) 170–1, 318INDEX 401