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Island Biogeography
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This chapter focuses on island biogeography. It shows how islands have always had a great influence on ecology, evolution, and biogeography. For mainland systems, the diversity of insular biotas is often simply characterized by their species richness, which refers to the number of species of a particular taxon. The chapter then looks at the patterns and causal explanations for differences in species richness among islands. It also details the ecological and evolutionary assembly of insular biotas, noting that the depauperate and disharmonic evolutionary arena of remote islands establishes ecological naiveté, one of the most perilous characteristics of insular plants and animals.
Title: Island Biogeography
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This chapter focuses on island biogeography.
It shows how islands have always had a great influence on ecology, evolution, and biogeography.
For mainland systems, the diversity of insular biotas is often simply characterized by their species richness, which refers to the number of species of a particular taxon.
The chapter then looks at the patterns and causal explanations for differences in species richness among islands.
It also details the ecological and evolutionary assembly of insular biotas, noting that the depauperate and disharmonic evolutionary arena of remote islands establishes ecological naiveté, one of the most perilous characteristics of insular plants and animals.
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