Concluding remarks: Historical perspective and the future of island biogeography theory

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-92

  Brown, James H ^a   Lomolino, Mark V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Equilibrium theory; Extinction; Immigration; Islands; MacArthur and Wilson; Nonequilibrium; Paradigm shift

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034073554     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00186.x     Document Type: Article

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