Island Biogeography

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Not surprisingly, they are widely studied by ecologists, conservationists and evolutionary biologists alike. There is no other recent textbook devoted solely to island biogeography, and a synthesis of the many recent advances is now overdue. This second edition builds on the success and reputation of the first, documenting the recent advances in this exciting field and explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories. In addition, the book describes the main processes of island formation, development and eventual demise, and explains the relevance of island environmental history to island biogeography. The authors demonstrate the huge significance of islands as hotspots of biodiversity, and as places from which disproportionate numbers of species have been extinguished by human action in historical time.Many island species are today threatened with extinction, and this work examines both the chief threats to their persistence and some of the mitigation measures that can be put in play with conservation strategies tailored to islands.

ISBN 0198566123   Pages 416 ISBN13 9780198566120 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 807 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780198500209 Publication date 30 Nov 2006   Height (mm) 240 Library of Congress 2006027562   Width (mm) 180 DEWEY 578.752   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

Pt. I		Islands as natural laboratories		1
1		The natural laboratory paradigm		3
2		Island environments		10
3		The biogeography of island life : biodiversity hotspots in context		46
Pt. II		Island ecology		75
4		Species numbers games : the macroecology of island biotas		77
5		Community assembly and dynamics		107
6		Scale and island ecological theory : towards a new synthesis		145
Pt. III		Island evolution		165
7		Arrival and change		167
8		Speciation and the island condition		195
9		Emergent models of island evolution		208
Pt. IV		Islands and conservation		249
10		Island theory and conservation		251
11		Anthropogenic losses and threats to island ecosystems		290
12		Island remedies : the conservation of island ecosystems		323

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Version	Price	Published	Edition
Hardback	£85.00	2006	2nd Revised edition