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The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited
ISBN: 9780691136530 | 069113653X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 10/19/2009
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"This wonderful and lively book provides a fitting forty-year retrospective on MacArthur and Wilson's seminal volume. I can easily see it on the shelf of every serious graduate student of community ecology. It has all the 'right' names in it--many of them personal friends of MacArthur and Wilson--plus a bunch of rising stars of the next generation. This book should create quite a ripple in the field."--William H. Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies "The chapters are all written by leaders in the field, the historical reviews are succinct and enlightening, and the perspectives are different enough to prevent repetition. Every author here whose work I know well has presented something new in the way of theoretical insight, data portraying an ecological pattern, or synthetic perspective on the field."--Henry S. Horn, Princeton University
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| List of Contributors | p. xv |
| Island Biogeography in the 1960s Theory and Experiment | p. 1 |
| Island Biogeography Theory: Reticulations and Reintegration of "a Biogeography of the Species" | p. 13 |
| The MacArthur-Wilson Equilibrium Model: A Chronicle of What It Said and How It Was Tested | p. 52 |
| A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography Extending the M... MORE | p. 88 |
| The Trophic Cascade on Islands | p. 116 |
| Toward a Trophic Island Biogeography: Reflections on the Interface of Island Biogeography and Food Web Ecology | p. 143 |
| The Theories of Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics: Science Marches Forward, but the Legacy of Good Ideas Lasts for a Long Time | p. 186 |
| Beyond Island Biogeography Theory: Understanding Habitat Fragmentation in the Real World | p. 214 |
| Birds of the Solomon Islands The Domain of the Dynamic Equilibrium Theory and Assembly Rules, with Comments on the Taxon Cycle | p. 237 |
| Neutral Theory and the Theory of Island Biogeography | p. 264 |
| Evolutionary Changes Following Island Colonization in Birds Empirical Insights into the Roles of Microevolutionary Processes | p. 293 |
| Sympatric Speciation, Immigration, and Hybridization in Island Birds | p. 326 |
| Island Biogeography of Remote Archipelagoes: Interplay between Ecological and Evolutionary Processes | p. 358 |
| Dynamics of Colonization and Extinction on Islands Insights from Lesser Antillean Birds | p. 388 |
| The Speciation-Area Relationship | p. 415 |
| Ecological and Genetic Models of Diversity Lessons across Disciplines | p. 439 |
| Index | p. 463 |
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Jonathan B. Losos is professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the curator of herpetology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Robert E. Ricklefs is the Curators' Professor of Biology at University of Missouri, St. Louis.
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