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Island Ecology (Paperback, 1979 ed.)
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Island Ecology (Paperback, 1979 ed.)
Series: Outline Studies in Ecology
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The islands of the Pacific and East Indies made an enormous and
fateful impact on the minds of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace,
the fathers of modem evolutionary theory. Since then island floras
and faunas have continued to playa central role in the development
of evolutionary, and more recently ecological thought. For much
ofthis century island ecology was a descriptive science and a
wealth of information has been amassed on patterns of species
distributions, on the composition of island floras and faunas, on
the classification of islands into types such as oceanic and
continental, on the taxonomic description of insular species and
sub-species and on the adaptations, often bizarre, of island
creatures. However, biologists are not satisfied for long with the
mere collection of data and the description of patterns, but seek
unifying theories. Island ecology was transformed into a predictive
science by the publication, in 1967, of MacArthur and Wilson's
Theory of Island Biogeography. This, perhaps the most influential
book written on island ecology, has been the stimulus for a
generation of theoretical ecologists and gifted field workers. The
books listed below in the bibliography will indicate to the reader
the vast scope of island ecology and the changes in approach that
have taken place over the years.
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