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The Theory of Island Biogeography

The Theory of Island Biogeography Paperback / softback - 2001

by Robert Helmer MacArthur

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Paperback / softback. New. Develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography which builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and area combine to regulate the balance between immigration and extinction in island populations.
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  • Title The Theory of Island Biogeography
  • Author Robert Helmer MacArthur
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Sixteenth Printi
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ
  • Date 2001-03-18
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780691088365
  • ISBN 9780691088365 / 0691088365
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.46 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.17 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Biogeography, Island ecology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051495
  • Dewey Decimal Code 578.752

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First line

"The Zoology of Archipelagoes," Charles Darwin wrote at an early moment in his career, "will be well worth examination."

From the rear cover

"MacArthur and Wilson's is arguably the most influential book in biogeography in the last hundred years. With its emphasis on on-going processes of colonization and extinction, it provided a new framework to explain patterns in species diversity and served as a counterpoint to hypotheses relying on chance and solitary historical events. Many of the antecedents for what we now call conservation biology, invasion biology, and landscape ecology had their origins here."--Ted Case, University of California, San Diego

About the author

Robert H. MacArthur was Professor of Biology at Princeton University until his death in 1972. Edward O. Wilson is University Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including Biodiversity, Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, and Naturalist.