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Island biogeography : geo-environmental dynamics, ecology, evolution, human impact, and conservation /

'Island Biogeography' is a review of the island literature, explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Whittaker, Robert J. (Author), Fernández-Palacios, José María, 1953- (Author), Matthews, Thomas J. (Thomas James), 1987- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Island ecology.
Evolution (Biology)
Biogeography.
Écologie des îles.
Biogéographie.
Biogeography
Island ecology
Biology, life sciences.
Environment and Ecology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • titlepage
  • copyrightpage
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • PART I Setting the Scene: Islands as Natural Laboratories
  • 1 The natural laboratory paradigm
  • 1.1 Scope
  • 1.2 Insularity: `the state or condition of being an island'
  • 1.3 Geo-environmental dynamics, ecology, evolution, human impact, and conservation: key themes in island biogeography
  • 1.4 A very brief history of island biogeography
  • 1.5 Summary
  • 2 Island types, origins, and dynamics
  • 2.1 Classifying marine islands
  • 2.2 Plate boundary islands
  • Islands at divergent plate boundaries
  • Islands at convergent plate boundaries
  • Islands along transverse plate boundaries
  • 2.3 Islands in intraplate locations
  • Linear island chains
  • Clustered groups of islands
  • Isolated islands
  • 2.4 Next steps in classifying marine islands and their biota
  • 2.5 Island ontogenies: the birth, development, and disappearance of islands
  • The Canaries and Palaeo-Macaronesia
  • Hawaii and the Emperor Seamount Chain
  • The Caribbean Islands
  • 2.6 Coralline islands: reefs, atolls, and guyots
  • 2.7 Summary
  • 3 Island environments
  • 3.1 Varied platforms
  • 3.2 Topographic characteristics
  • 3.3 Edaphic characteristics
  • 3.4 Climatic characteristics
  • 3.5 Water resources
  • 3.6 Isolation: tracks in the ocean
  • 3.7 Insular disturbance regimes
  • Extreme weather events
  • Disturbance from volcanism and mega-landslides
  • 3.8 Quaternary climate change on islands
  • 3.9 Changes in sea level
  • 3.10 Anthropogenic environmental change and disturbance
  • 3.11 Summary
  • 4 The biogeography of island life: biodiversity hotspots in context
  • 4.1 Are islands rich or poor?
  • 4.2 Species poverty
  • 4.3 Disharmony
  • 4.4 Dispersal
  • 4.5 Filter effects and sweepstake dispersal
  • 4.6 Biogeographical regionalism, modules, and nodes
  • 4.7 Disjunct distributions and the tussle between vicariance and dispersalism
  • 4.8 Macaronesia-the biogeographical affinities of the Happy Islands
  • 4.9 Island endemism
  • Plants
  • Land snails
  • Insects
  • Lizards
  • Birds
  • Mammals
  • Comparisons between taxa at the regional scale
  • 4.10 Cryptic and extinct island endemics: a cautionary note
  • 4.11 Summary
  • PART II Island Ecology
  • 5 Island macroecology
  • 5.1 From pattern to process
  • 5.2 MacArthur and Wilson's equilibrium theory of island biogeography
  • 5.3 Species richness and area: the basics
  • 5.4 What shape is the island species-area relationship?
  • The small-island effect
  • Revealing the full shape of the ISAR?
  • 5.5 The power model, c and z, and scale dependency of ISARs
  • 5.6 Towards some generalizations about ISARs
  • 5.7 Island species richness and distance
  • 5.8 Towards more complete models of island diversity variation
  • Area and habitat diversity
  • Climate and energy
  • Trophic differences
  • System age and geo-environmental dynamics: a first look
  • Scale effects