tailieunhanh - Island Biogeography Ecology, evolution, and conservation

Island biogeography is an important subject for several reasons. First, it has been and remains a field which feeds ideas, theories, models, and tests of same into ecology, evolutionary biology, and biogeography. This is because islands provide natural scientists with model systems—replicated and simplified contexts—allowing us to isolate particular factors and processes and to explore their effects. Secondly, some of these theories have had great weight placed upon them in applications in nature conservation, as scientists and conservationists attempt to understand, predict and manage the biodiversity impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation | ORD BIOLOGY Island SECOND EDITION Biogeography ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND CONSERVATION Robert J. Whittaker José Maria Fernandez-Palacios Island Biogeography Front cover image Rapa Austral Islands French Polynesia from Mt. Perahu. Photo by R. G. Gillespie taken on an expedition funded by La Délégation à la Recherche and l Institut Louis Malardé Tahiti. Back cover image Kosrae Micronesia from the summit of Mt. Finkol. Photo by G. K. Roderick and R. G. Gillespie taken on an expedition funded by the National Geographic .