Island Life : Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates /

Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological diversity. Island Life has long been considered one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, Alfred Russel (Autor)
Otros Autores: Heaney, Lawrence R. (Contribuidor), Quammen, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Temas:
Biogeography.
Glacial epoch > Electronic books.
Glacial epoch.
Island ecology.
SCIENCE / General.
climate, weather, geology, fauna, flora, biology, botany, zoology, science, island, tropical, isolation, species, population, evolution, adaptation, biodiversity, darwin, alfred russel wallace, natural selection, naturalist, biogeography, glaciers, ice age, distribution patterns, continental glaciation, classification, reference, nonfiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PART I. THE DISPERSAL OF ORGANISMS; ITS PHENOMENA, LAWS, AND CAUSES
  • CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
  • CHAPTER II. THE ELEMENTARY FACTS OF DISTRIBUTION
  • CHAPTER III. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FACTS OF DISTRIBUTION.-ZOOLOGICAL REGIONS
  • CHAPTER IV. EVOLUTION THE KEY TO DISTRIBUTION
  • CHAPTER V. THE POWERS OF DISPERSAL OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS
  • CHAPTER VI. GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL CHANGES: THE PERMANENCE OF CONTINENTS
  • CHAPTER VII. CHANGES OF CLIMATE WHICH HAVE INFLUENCED THE DISPERSAL OF ORGANISM~: THE GLACIAL EPOCH
  • CHAPTER VIII. THE CAUSES OF GLACIAL EPOCHS
  • CHAPTER IX. ANCIENT GLACIAL EPOCHS, AND MILD CLIMATES IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS
  • CHAPTER X.. THE EARTH'S AGE, AND THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS
  • PART II. INSULAR FAUNAS AND FLORAS
  • CHAPTER XI. THE CLASSIFICATION OF ISLANDS
  • CHAPTER XII. OCEANIC ISLANDS :-THE AZORES AND BERMUDA
  • CHAPTER XIII. THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
  • CHAPTER XIV. ST. HELENA
  • CHAPTER XV. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
  • CHAPTER XVI. CONTINENTAL ISLANDS OF RECENT ORIGIN: GREAT BRITAIN
  • CHAPTER XVII. BORNEO AND JAVA
  • CHAPTER XVIII. JAPAN AND FORMOSA
  • CHAPTER XIX. ANCIENT CONTINENTAL ISLANDS: THE MADAGASCAR GROUP
  • CHAPTER XX. ANOMALOUS ISLANDS: CELEBES
  • CHAPTER XXI. ANOMALOUS ISLANDS: NEW ZEALAND
  • CHAPTER XXII. THE FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND: ITS AFFINITIES AND PROBABLE ORIGIN
  • CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE ARCTIC ELEMENT IN SOUTH TEMPERATE FLORAS
  • CHAPTER XXIV. SVMMARY AND CONCLUSION
  • INDEX

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