Island biogeography theory reticulations and reintegration of "a biogeography of the species"

The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-51

  Lomolino, Mark V ^a   Brown, James H ^b   Sax, Dov F ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (Mexico)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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