Song of the Dodo.  -  David Quammen

Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

KORTE INHOUD

Thirty years ago, two young biologists named Robert MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson triggered a far-reaching scientific revolution. In a book titled The Theory of Island Biogeography, they presented a new view of a little-understood matter: the geographical patterns in which animal and plant species occur. Why do marsupials exist in Australia and South America, but not in Africa? Why do tigers exist in Asia, but not in New Guinea? Influenced by MacArthur and Wilson's book, an entire generation of ecologists ...
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1996 Uitgever: New York etc., Scribner 702 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0684800837 ISBN-13: 9780684800837