Applied Island Biogeography

Conservation Biogeography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 190-223

  Triantis, Kostas A ^a,b   Bhagwat, Shonil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Applied island biogeography; Design guidelines for reserves from theory of island biogeography, contributions to theory; Habitat loss and fragmentation implications; Islands, in development of conservation theory equilibrium theory of island biogeography (ETIB); Major events in sequential collapse of easter island ecosystem; Nested subset relationships, circles representing islands and letters, circle size correlated with species richness; Species incidence, two paradigms in conservation biology 'declining population paradigm' and 'small population paradigm'; Species area relationship (SAR) not one of ecology's general patterns, first discovered; Species area relationship (SAR) species number increase with area increase, patterns in biogeography and ecology; Terrestrial reserves and national parks 'habitat islands' and 'sea'of human altered landscapes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858637699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390001.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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