The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited (eBook)

Jonathan B. Losos, Robert E. Ricklefs (Herausgeber)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3192-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones. 100 line illus. 16 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • adaptive Radiation • Allele • allele frequency • allopatric speciation • Anolis • Arthropod • Assembly rules • Atoll • biodiversity • biogeography • Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project • Biological interaction • biologist • Biology • Biomass (ecology) • bird • Carrying Capacity • checkerboard • climate change • common species • Competition • conservation biology • darwin's finches • Defaunation • Density dependence • ecological niche • Ecological release • Ecology • ecosystem • endemism • E. O. Wilson • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary dynamics • Food Chain • food web • founder effect • Gene Flow • genetic diversity • genetic variation • habitat destruction • habitat fragmentation • Hawaiian Islands • Herbivore • Inbreeding • insect • intraspecific competition • introduced species • Invasive species • Invertebrate • Islet • Lesser Antilles • Local extinction • Mammal • Mangrove • Melanesia • Meta-analysis • metacommunity • metapopulation • microsatellite • Molecular Biology • molecular phylogenetics • Monograph • Mutualism (biology) • Natural selection • New Guinea • nutrient • On the Origin of Species • organism • Phenotype • Phylogenetics • Population Ecology • Population Genetics • Population Size • Population viability analysis • predation • Prediction • Probability • Propagule • result • Richard Levins • Robert MacArthur • rodent • Small population size • Speciation • species • Species–area curve • species complex • Species richness • Sympatric speciation • sympatry • Taxon • Tetragnatha • trophic cascade • Trophic level • Vertebrate • year • Zoogeography • Zosterops
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3192-X / 140083192X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3192-0 / 9781400831920