Scale, succession and complexity in island biogeography: Are we asking the right questions?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-85

  Whittaker, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Island assembly theory; Island biogeography; MacArthur Wilson theory; Nonequilibrium; Paradigm shift; Scale; Succession

Indexed keywords

ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; SCALE EFFECT; SUCCESSION;

EID: 0034063486     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00200.x     Document Type: Article

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