Losos / Ricklefs The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3192-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Losos, Jonathan B.

Ricklefs, Robert E.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Robert M. May vii

Preface by Jonathan B. Losos and Robert E. Ricklefs xi

List of Contributors xv

Island Biogeography in the 1960s

Theory and Experiment by Edward O. Wilson 1

Island Biogeography Theory

Reticulations and Reintegration of "a Biogeography of the Species" by Mark V. Lomolino, James H. Brown, and Dov. F. Sax 13

The MacArthur- Wilson Equilibrium Model

A Chronicle of What It Said and How It Was Tested by Thomas W. Schoener 52

A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography

Extending the MacArthur- Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands by Robert J. Whittaker, Kostas A. Triantis, and Richard J. Ladle 88

The Trophic Cascade on Islands by John Terborgh 116

Toward a Trophic Island Biogeography

Reflections on the Interface of Island Biogeography and Food Web Ecology by Robert D. Holt 143

The Theories of Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics

Science Marches Forward, but the Legacy of Good Ideas Lasts for a Long Time by Ilkka Hanski 186

Beyond Island Biogeography Theory

Understanding Habitat Fragmentation in the Real World by William F. Laurance 214

Birds of the Solomon Islands

The Domain of the Dynamic Equilibrium Theory and Assembly Rules, with Comments on the Taxon Cycle by Daniel Simberloff and Michael D. Collins 237

Neutral Theory and the Theory of Island Biogeography by Stephen P. Hubbell 264

Evolutionary Changes Following Island Colonization in Birds

Empirical Insights into the Roles of Microevolutionary Processes by Sonya Clegg 293

Sympatric Speciation, Immigration, and Hybridization in Island Birds by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant 326

Island Biogeography of Remote Archipelagoes

Interplay between Ecological and Evolutionary Processes by Rosemary G. Gillespie and Bruce G. Baldwin 358

Dynamics of Colonization and Extinction on Islands

Insights from Lesser Antillean Birds by Robert E. Ricklefs 388

The Speciation- Area Relationship by Jonathan B. Losos and Christina E. Parent 415

Ecological and Ge ne tic Models of Diversity

Lessons across Disciplines by Mark Vellend and John L. Orrock 439

Index 463

Über Autor(innen)

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.