Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

by Robert J. Whittaker

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198566123
• ISBN13: 9780198566120
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.7"