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Title: The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert H. MacArthur, Edward O. Wilson ISBN: 0-691-08836-5 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: dated, but excellent for seeing where the field began
Comment: This is a wonderful book that spawned a new sub-field in ecology as well as providing a major theoretical approach to conservation issues. Island biogeography provided us with a new way to view biodiversity as it related to space. A wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reprint of MacArthur's and Wilson's Seminal Ecological Tome
Comment: Originally published as part of the Princeton University Press' Monographs in Population Biology series, Robert MacArthur's and Edward O. Wilson's "Theory Of Island Biogeography" is regarded by many as the most influential tome in theoretical ecology published in the latter half of the 20th Century. Its importance is due to its success in predicting the causes and outcomes of variations in species diversity across a wide range of habitats, not only tropical islands. Furthermore it is the underlying theory behind current research in conservation biology. And it has played a magnificient role in analyzing fluctuations in taxonomic diversity from both marine and continental fossil records across the span of more than half a billion years of Earth history. MacArthur and Wilson conceived of a simple, yet conceptually fruitful equilibrium model of species diversity, recognizing that species diversity is often in a state of flux between varying rates of species immigration (or perhaps, speciation) and extinction. This then novel way at looking at species diversity combined MacArthur's sound mathematical reasoning with Wilson's excellent field biogeographic research (Yet those who are not mathematically inclined should not feel intimidated; their theoretical arguments are made through lucid, exquisite prose.). Without a doubt, their equilibrium theory of island biogeography is one of the finest achievements of 20th Century ecology.
Rating: 4
Summary: The young lion revisited
Comment: Robert McArthur was on he knew was his last speaking trip across the country when I heard him in Boulder in the winter of 1974. He didn't talk about death; he talked about life and how it works. He wrote one short equation on the blackboard, then talked about it for an hour. No long after he was dead, but he was the real young lion, he changed ecology forever. His start was simple: look at avifauna in terms of foliage height diversity, but he did not stop there.
Wilson? He's brilliant in his own way, of course, but I'm betting his contribution to Island Biogeography was criticism and editing.
People have spent a lot of time attacking parts of this book, an equation here, an equation there. And if you don't like equations at all, skip them and go for the ideas. This was the seminal book, the start of the New Era, where complex ideas can be encapsulated in a brief expression, then turned around and it's implications tested. It will teach you how to think.
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Title: The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography by Stephen P. Hubbell ISBN: 0691021287 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The SONG OF THE DODO: ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTIONS by David Quammen ISBN: 0684827123 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 14 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Species Diversity in Space and Time by Michael L. Rosenzweig ISBN: 0521499526 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Geographical Ecology by Robert H. MacArthur ISBN: 0691023824 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Island Biogeography : Ecology, Evolution and Conservation by Robert J. Whittaker ISBN: 0198500203 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.50 |
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