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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Whittaker, Robert J. Island biogeography. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006027562 (OCoLC)71044739 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert J Whittaker; José María Fernández-Palacios |
ISBN: | 9780191524165 0191524166 9786611930714 661193071X 9781435605954 1435605950 1281930717 9781281930712 |
OCLC Number: | 181039661 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Preface and acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Islands as Natural Laboratories; Part Ii: Island Ecology; Part Iii: Island Evolution; Part Iv: Islands and Conservation; Glossary; References; Index. |
Series Title: | Oxford biology. |
Responsibility: | Robert J. Whittaker, and José María Fernández-Palacios. |
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Abstract:
A definitive review of the island literature, explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories.
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This is an exceptionally exciting time in the development of island biogeography, and the authors of this book have done us a great service in clarifying where we have been and hlping to point the way forwards. * Lawrence R. Heaney, Journal of Biogeography (2007) 34, 1832 * Read more...
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- Island ecology.
- Evolution (Biology)
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- Biogeography.
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- Écologie des îles.
- Évolution (Biologie)
- Biologie de la conservation.
- Biogéographie.
- Écologie humaine.
- human ecology.
- evolution.
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.