The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

by Losos, Jonathan B.; Ricklefs, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780691136530
• ISBN10: 069113653X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-19
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

"This wonderful and lively book provides a fitting forty-year retrospective on MacArthur and Wilson's seminal volume. I can easily see it on the shelf of every serious graduate student of community ecology. It has all the 'right' names in it--many of them personal friends of MacArthur and Wilson--plus a bunch of rising stars of the next generation. This book should create quite a ripple in the field."--William H. Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies "The chapters are all written by leaders in the field, the historical reviews are succinct and enlightening, and the perspectives are different enough to prevent repetition. Every author here whose work I know well has presented something new in the way of theoretical insight, data portraying an ecological pattern, or synthetic perspective on the field."--Henry S. Horn, Princeton University

Author Biography

Jonathan B. Losos is professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the curator of herpetology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Robert E. Ricklefs is the Curators' Professor of Biology at University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xv
Island Biogeography in the 1960s Theory and Experiment	p. 1
Island Biogeography Theory: Reticulations and Reintegration of "a Biogeography of the Species"	p. 13
The MacArthur-Wilson Equilibrium Model: A Chronicle of What It Said and How It Was Tested	p. 52
A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography Extending the MacArthur-Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands	p. 88
The Trophic Cascade on Islands	p. 116
Toward a Trophic Island Biogeography: Reflections on the Interface of Island Biogeography and Food Web Ecology	p. 143
The Theories of Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics: Science Marches Forward, but the Legacy of Good Ideas Lasts for a Long Time	p. 186
Beyond Island Biogeography Theory: Understanding Habitat Fragmentation in the Real World	p. 214
Birds of the Solomon Islands The Domain of the Dynamic Equilibrium Theory and Assembly Rules, with Comments on the Taxon Cycle	p. 237
Neutral Theory and the Theory of Island Biogeography	p. 264
Evolutionary Changes Following Island Colonization in Birds Empirical Insights into the Roles of Microevolutionary Processes	p. 293
Sympatric Speciation, Immigration, and Hybridization in Island Birds	p. 326
Island Biogeography of Remote Archipelagoes: Interplay between Ecological and Evolutionary Processes	p. 358
Dynamics of Colonization and Extinction on Islands Insights from Lesser Antillean Birds	p. 388
The Speciation-Area Relationship	p. 415
Ecological and Genetic Models of Diversity Lessons across Disciplines	p. 439
Index	p. 463
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