Preface and Acknowledgements
PART 1: Setting the Scene: Islands as Natural Laboratories
1: The natural laboratory paradigm
2: Island types, origins, and dynamics
3: Island environments
4: The biogeography of island life: biodiversity hotspots in
context
PART 2: Island Ecology
5: Island macroecology
6: Assembly rules for island metacommunities
7: Extending the timescale: island biodynamics in response to
island geodynamics
PART 3: Island Evolution
8: Colonization, evolutionary change, and speciation
9: Evolutionary diversification across islands and archipelagos
10: Island evolutionary syndromes in animals
11: Island evolutionary syndromes in - and involving - plants
PART 4: Human Impact and Conservation
12: The application of island theory to fragmented landscapes
13: The human transformation of island ecosystems
14: Anthropogenic extinction on islands: a synthesis
15: Meeting the conservation challenge
Robert J. Whittaker is Professor of Biogeography in the School of
Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and holds
a part time professorial position at the Centre for Macroecology,
Evolution, and Climate in the University of Copenhagen. He is a
cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography
Society. He is coauthor of Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution,
and Conservation (OUP, 2006). His research
interests span island biogeography, diversity theory, macroecology,
and conservation biogeography. José María Fernández-Palacios is
Full Professor of Ecology at the La Laguna University, Tenerife,
Spain. He is an internationally
recognised researcher on island ecology and biogeography, and in
2019 was elected President of the Society of Island Biology (SIB),
a scientific association of island researchers and managers
worldwide. He is coauthor of Island Biogeography: Ecology,
Evolution, and Conservation (OUP, 2006). Tom Matthews is a Senior
Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental
Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. He researches global
environmental change issues
using macroecological, macroevolutionary and biogeographical
approaches. He applies a mixture of theoretical and empirical
methods to investigate various macroecological topics, including
species-area relationships and species
abundance distributions. He has a keen interest in island systems,
and in particular the application of island theory to habitat
island systems.
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