The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited
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The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

About this book

Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's The Theory of Island Biogeography, first published by Princeton in 1967, is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. By developing a general mathematical theory to explain a crucial ecological problem--the regulation of species diversity in island populations--the book transformed the science of biogeography and ecology as a whole. In The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited, some of today's most prominent biologists assess the continuing impact of MacArthur and Wilson's book four decades after its publication. Following an opening chapter in which Wilson reflects on island biogeography in the 1960s, fifteen chapters evaluate and demonstrate how the field has extended and confirmed--as well as challenged and modified--MacArthur and Wilson's original ideas. Providing a broad picture of the fundamental ways in which the science of island biogeography has been shaped by MacArthur and Wilson's landmark work, The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited also points the way toward exciting future research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Island Biogeography in the 1960s: Theory and Experiment
  10. Island Biogeography Theory: Reticulations and Reintegration of “a Biogeography of the Species”
  11. The MacArthur-Wilson Equilibrium Model: A Chronicle of What It Said and How It Was Tested
  12. A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography: Extending the MacArthur-Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands
  13. The Trophic Cascade on Islands
  14. Toward a Trophic Island Biogeography: Reflections on the Interface of Island Biogeography and Food Web Ecology
  15. The Theories of Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics: Science Marches Forward, but the Legacy of Good Ideas Lasts for a Long Time
  16. Beyond Island Biogeography Theory: Understanding Habitat Fragmentation in the Real World
  17. Birds of the Solomon Islands: The Domain of the Dynamic Equilibrium Theory and Assembly Rules, with Comments on the Taxon Cycle
  18. Neutral Theory and the Theory of Island Biogeography
  19. Evolutionary Changes Following Island Colonization in Birds: Empirical Insights into the Roles of Microevolutionary Processes
  20. Sympatric Speciation, Immigration, and Hybridization in Island Birds
  21. Island Biogeography of Remote Archipelagoes: Interplay between Ecological and Evolutionary Processes
  22. Dynamics of Colonization and Extinction on Islands: Insights from Lesser Antillean Birds
  23. The Speciation-Area Relationship
  24. Ecological and Genetic Models of Diversity: Lessons across Disciplines
  25. Index