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When Dana Schwartz started writing about a 19th-century pandemic ravaging Edinburgh in her latest book, Anatomy: A Love Story, she had no idea This text offers a new synthesis of ideas and models in island ecology and evolution. This is the only textbook on the subject featuring a collaborative "active learning" approach that emphasizes hands-on learning.

Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's The Theory of Island Biogeography, first published by Princeton in , is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. Population theory. This book should be of strong interest to conservation biologists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists more generally. This volume addresses this shortfall by providing a synthesis of the development of SAR typologies and theory, as well as empirical research and application to biodiversity conservation problems.

Island Biogeography : Ecology , Evolution , and Conservation. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Scale, succession and complexity in island biogeography : are we asking the right questions? Global Ecology and Biogeography — Isolation, extinction, conservation, biodiversity, hotspots. These elegantly written well-illustrated chapters demonstrate how the science of island biogeography can be used to biological conservation of these environments.

The impact of human activities on the island biodiversity is also well treated in a whole chapter However, it seems that no enough attention has been given to the usefulness of palaeoecological investigations in understanding the role of human activities on the ecosystems and biodiversity of islands and the importance of these data in conservation measures see Willis et al. Site map — Syndication.

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