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The Biology of Island Floras

Author : David Bramwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497804
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Island Floras written by David Bramwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceanic islands offer biologists unparalleled opportunities to study evolutionary processes and ecological phenomena. However, human activity threatens to alter or destroy many of these fragile ecosystems, with recent estimates suggesting that nearly half of the world's insular endemics are threatened with extinction. Bringing together researchers from around the world, this book illustrates how modern research methods and new concepts have challenged accepted theories and changed our understanding of island flora. Particular attention is given to the impact of molecular studies and the insights that they provide into topics such as colonisation, radiation, diversification and hybridisation. Examples are drawn from around the world, including the Hawaiian archipelago, Galapagos Islands, Madagascar and the Macronesian region. Conservation issues are also highlighted, with coverage of alien species and the role of ex situ conservation providing valuable information that will aid the formulation of management strategies and genetic rescue programmes.

Island Life, Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Island Life, Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by : Alfred Russel Wallace

Download or read book Island Life, Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace's Island Life is one of the foundation works of zoogeography. It focused on the detailed problems of animal dispersal and speciation. Like Darwin, Wallace classified islands as either oceanic (no previous connection to a land mass) or continental (previously connected to a land mass). He considered the means by which each class of island might become colonized, the types of animals most likely to perform the necessary migrations, and the conditions-such as major climactic or geologic change-under which the migrations might have been made. Wallace was the first to use the new knowledge of Pleistocene ice ages to explain certain phenomena of animal distribution, and in Island Life he speculated about the possible causes of glaciation. He was one of the few 19th-century scientists to realize that astronomical causes alone would not suffice, but had to be combined with a corresponding elevation in the northern land mass -- Abe books website.

Island Ecology

Author : M. Gorman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400958005
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Island Ecology written by M. Gorman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of the Pacific and East Indies made an enormous and fateful impact on the minds of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, the fathers of modem evolutionary theory. Since then island floras and faunas have continued to playa central role in the development of evolutionary, and more recently ecological thought. For much ofthis century island ecology was a descriptive science and a wealth of information has been amassed on patterns of species distributions, on the composition of island floras and faunas, on the classification of islands into types such as oceanic and continental, on the taxonomic description of insular species and sub-species and on the adaptations, often bizarre, of island creatures. However, biologists are not satisfied for long with the mere collection of data and the description of patterns, but seek unifying theories. Island ecology was transformed into a predictive science by the publication, in 1967, of MacArthur and Wilson's Theory of Island Biogeography. This, perhaps the most influential book written on island ecology, has been the stimulus for a generation of theoretical ecologists and gifted field workers. The books listed below in the bibliography will indicate to the reader the vast scope of island ecology and the changes in approach that have taken place over the years.

Plants of Oceanic Islands

Author : Tod F. Stuessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180074
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Plants of Oceanic Islands written by Tod F. Stuessy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of the origin and evolution of the plants of an entire oceanic archipelago.

Flora of Puná Island

Author : Jens E. Madsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Flora of Puná Island written by Jens E. Madsen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study combines botany, ethnography, and history to describe the use and administration of botanical resources on Puna Island in Ecuador. Evidence of sustained human settlements on the Island -- strategically located in the Gulf of Guayaquil -- date back more than 5000 years to the Early Formative Period. This island and its flora and vegetation are intricately linked to the development of the earliest pre-Columbian agrarian and maritime civilizations. After European contact in the 15th century, the island became an important centre for trade and its extensive forests were an important resource for the ship-building industry of the entire South Pacific. This book provides information on the Island's geography, geology, climate, socioeconomy, infrastructure, and history of botanical exploration. The vegetation of the island is described in terms of plant communities, structure, floristic composition, dynamics, and phenology. A chapter is devoted to the history of plant use from the pre-Columbian epoch and up to the present day. The famous balsa rafts with sails made of domesticated native cotton impressed the Spanish naval engineers and sailors. In the 16th century, Lima, the Peruvian capital, was build on mangrove woods exploited from Puna Island and the Gulf of Guayaquil. Present day ethnobotany on the island is presented and it is shown that vernacular plant names suggest separate dialect areas. This is the first documented flora for Puna Island. It contains brief descriptions and keys to identification of all 431 known native and naturalised plant species on the Island. Approximately 15% of the Island's plant species are endemic to southwestern Ecuador and adjacent Peru, and23% are shared with the Galapagos Islands. The area of distribution, uses, and phenology of the various species is also described. The main cultivated plants are also listed with notes on uses, origin and introduction to the Island. This study of the vegetation on one island offers more than plant information, it also provides an insight into the conditions under which the inhabitants lived and used the available flora.

Island Life

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Life written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon: Ranunculaceæ-Anacardiaceæ. With plates I-XXV

Author : Henry Trimen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon: Ranunculaceæ-Anacardiaceæ. With plates I-XXV by : Henry Trimen

Download or read book A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon: Ranunculaceæ-Anacardiaceæ. With plates I-XXV written by Henry Trimen and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories

Author : Eric Hultén
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804706438
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories written by Eric Hultén and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work by the world's preeminent authority on Arctic floras--the first comprehensive, up-to-date botanic manual for this region--is the product of the author's more than forty years of study of circumpolar floras. The book describes and illustrates all flowering plants and vascular cryptograms known to occur in Alaska, the Yukon, the Mackenzie District, and the eastern extremity of Siberia. Some 1,974 taxa, belonging to 1,559 species, occur in this region; all are described. For 1,735 of these, the book provides detailed description, nomenclature, plant drawing, and range maps. In each case, one map gives distribution in the Alaskan region; a second, on circumpolar projection, gives worldwide range. This volume is the first major flora to assemble such comprehensive range data and to provide such maps. An analytic key to all species described is provided for each genus, and there is an artificial key to families. An Introduction describes the past and present climatic, geologic, and ecologic character of the regions covered, the history of botanical collection in these regions, and the book's treatment of botanical and taxonomic details; and lists the plants of neighboring regions likely to occur. Glossary, plant authors' list, bibliography, and indexes are provided. The superb drawings were prepared by Dagny Tande-Lid, and eight pages of illustration in color are included.

Geology and Paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Author : Rodney M. Feldmann
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 081371169X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Geology and Paleontology of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula written by Rodney M. Feldmann and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1988 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island Life

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139381451
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Island Life written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flora of the Cayman Islands

Author : George R. Proctor
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN 13 : 9781842464038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Flora of the Cayman Islands by : George R. Proctor

Download or read book Flora of the Cayman Islands written by George R. Proctor and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three islands comprising the Cayman Islands support 415 native taxa in a land area over 100 square miles, 29 of which are uniquely Caymanian. This field guide satisfies the needs of the professional botanist, while providing the non-expert and eco-tourist with an introduction to the unique endemic flora of the Cayman Islands.

Biology 497A

Author : Philip S. Ely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963103666
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Biology 497A written by Philip S. Ely and published by . This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island Colonization

Author : Ian Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462318
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Island Colonization written by Ian Thornton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and establishment of new biological communities. Studies carried out on islands like this have provided answers to fundamental questions as to what general principles are involved in the ecology of communities and what processes underlie and maintain the basic structure of ecosystems. These studies are vital for conservation biology, especially when evolutionary processes need to be maintained in systems in order to maintain biodiversity. The major themes are how animal and plant communities establish, particularly on 'new land' or following extirpations by volcanic activity. This book comprises a broad review of island colonization, bringing together succession models and general principles, case studies with which Professor Ian Thornton was intimately involved, and a synthesis of ideas, concluding with a look to the future for similar studies.

Island Biology

Author : Sherwin John Carlquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Island Biology written by Sherwin John Carlquist and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island Biogeography

Author : Robert J. Whittaker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191524166
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Island Biogeography written by Robert J. Whittaker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve, but they are also places of concentrated extinction. Not surprisingly, they are widely studied by ecologists, conservationists and evolutionary biologists alike. There is no other recent textbook devoted solely to island biogeography, and a synthesis of the many recent advances is now overdue. This second edition builds on the success and reputation of the first, documenting the recent advances in this exciting field and explaining how islands have been used as natural laboratories in developing and testing ecological and evolutionary theories. In addition, the book describes the main processes of island formation, development and eventual demise, and explains the relevance of island environmental history to island biogeography. The authors demonstrate the huge significance of islands as hotspots of biodiversity, and as places from which disproportionate numbers of species have been extinguished by human action in historical time. Many island species are today threatened with extinction, and this work examines both the chief threats to their persistence and some of the mitigation measures that can be put in play with conservation strategies tailored to islands.

Island Biogeography

Author : Robert J. Whittaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198566113
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Island Biogeography written by Robert J. Whittaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolation, extinction, conservation, biodiversity, hotspots.

Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island Life is one of Alfred Russel Wallace's most important works, studying the influence of glacial epochs on the distribution of organisms and the biogeography of islands. Contents: The Dispersal of Organisms, Evolution as the Key to Distribution, The Causes of Glacial Epochs, cont.