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Messages from Islands - A Global Biodiversity Tour (Hardcover)
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Messages from Islands - A Global Biodiversity Tour (Hardcover)
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From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands
of Borneo and Madagascar, Messages from Islands is a global tour of
these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning
work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands on which he has
performed fieldwork to convey key themes in ecology. By exploring
the islands' biodiversity as an introduction to general issues,
Hanski helps us to learn how species and communities interact in
fragmented landscapes, how evolution generates biodiversity, and
how this biodiversity is maintained over time. Beginning each
chapter on a particular island, Hanski dives into reflections on
his own field studies before going on to pursue a variety of
ecological questions, including: What is the biodiversity crisis?
What are extinction thresholds and extinction debts? What can the
biodiversity hypothesis tell us about rapidly increasing allergies,
asthma, and other chronic inflammatory disorders? The world's
largest island, Greenland, for instance, is the starting point for
a journey into the benefits that humankind acquires from
biodiversity, including the staggering biodiversity of microbes in
the ecosystems that are closest to us the ecosystems in our guts,
in our respiratory tracts, and under our skin. Conceptually
oriented but grounded in an adventurous personal narrative,
Messages from Islands is a landmark work that lifts the natural
mysteries of islands from the sea, bringing to light the thrilling
complexities and connections of ecosystems worldwide.
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