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Encyclopedia of islands /
"Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leadin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Encyclopedias of the natural world ;
no. 2. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Adaptive radiation
- Anagenesis
- Antarctic Islands, biology
- Antarctic Islands, geology
- Antilles, biology
- Antilles, geology
- Ants
- Archaeology
- Arctic Islands, biology
- Arctic Islands, geology
- Arctic Region
- Ascension
- Atlantic Region
- Atolls
- Azores
- Baffin
- Baja California: offshore islands
- Barrier Islands
- Barro Colorado
- Beaches
- Bermuda
- Biological control
- Bird disease
- Bird radiations
- Borneo
- Britain and Ireland
- Canary Islands, biology
- Canary Islands, geology
- Cape Verde Islands
- Caroline Islands
- Caves, as islands
- Channel Islands (British Isles)
- Channel Islands (California), biology
- Channel Islands (California), geology
- Cichlid fish
- Climate change
- Climate on islands
- Cold seeps
- Comoros
- Continental Islands
- Convergence
- Cook Islands
- Coral
- Cozumel
- Crickets
- Cyprus
- Darwin and geologic history
- Deforestation
- Dispersal
- Dodo
- Drosophila
- Dwarfism
- Earthquakes
- Easter Island
- Ecological release
- Endemism
- Ephemeral Islands, biology
- Ephemeral Islands, geology
- Erosion, coastal
- Eruptions: Laki and Tambora
- Ethnobotany
- Exploration and discovery
- Extinction
- Farallon Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Fernando de Noronha
- Fiji, biology
- Fiji, geology Fish stocks/overfishing
- Flightlessness
- Fossil birds
- Founder effects
- Fragmentation
- Fraser Island
- French Polynesia, biology
- French Polynesia, geology
- Freshwater habitats
- Frogs
- Galapagos Finches
- Galapagos Islands, biology
- Galapagos Islands, geology
- Gigantism
- Global warming
- Granitic Islands
- Great Barrier Reef Islands, biology
- Great Barrier Reef Islands, geology
- Greek Islands, biology
- Greek Islands, geology
- Hawaiian Islands, biology Hawaiian Islands, geology
- Honeycreepers, Hawaiian
- Human impacts, Pre-European
- Hurricanes and typhoons
- Hydrology
- Hydrothermal vents
- Iceland
- Inbreeding
- Indian Region
- Indonesia, biology
- Indonesia, geology
- Insect radiations
- Inselbergs
- Introduced species
- Invasion biology
- Island arcs
- Island biogeography, theory of
- Island formation
- Island Rule
- Japan's islands, biology
- Japan's islands, geology
- Juan Fernandez Islands
- Kick 'em Jenny
- Kipuka
- Komodo Dragons
- Kon-Tiki
- Krakatau
- Kurile Islands
- Lakes, as islands
- Land crabs on Christmas Island
- Landslides
- Land snails
- Lava and ash
- Lava tubes
- Lemurs and tarsiers
- Line islands
- Lizard radiations
- Lophelia oases
- Lord Howe Island
- Macquarie, biology
- Macquarie, geology
- Madagascar, biology
- Madagascar, geology
- Madeira Archipelago
- Makatea Islands
- Maldives
- Mammal radiations
- Mangrove Islands
- Marianas, biology
- Marianas, geology
- Marine lakes
- Marine protected areas
- Marshall Islands
- Mascarene Islands, biology
- Mascarene Islands, geology
- Mediterranean Region
- Metapopulations
- Midway
- Missionaries, effects of
- Moa
- Motu
- New Caledonia, biology
- New Caledonia, geology
- Newfoundland
- New Guinea, biology
- New Guinea, geology
- New Zealand, biology
- New Zealand, geology
- Nuclear bomb testing
- Oases
- Oceanic Islands
- Orchids
- Organic falls on the ocean floor
- Pacific Region
- Palau
- Pantepui
- Peopling the Pacific
- Philippines, biology
- Philippines, geology
- Phosphate Islands
- Pigs and goats
- Pitcairn
- Plant disease
- Plate tectonics
- Pocket basins and deep-sea speciation
- Polynesian voyaging
- Popular culture, islands in
- Population genetics, island models in
- Prisons and penal settlements
- Radiation zone
- Rafting
- Reef ecology and conservation
- Refugia
- Relaxation
- Research stations
- Rodents
- Rottnest Island
- Samoa, biology
- Samoa, geology
- Sao Tome, Principe, and Annobon
- Seabirds
- Sea-level change
- Seamounts, biology
- Seamounts, geology
- Sexual selection
- Seychelles
- Shipwrecks
- Silverswords
- Sky Islands
- Snakes
- Socotra Archipelago
- Solomon Islands, biology
- Solomon Islands, geology
- Species-area relationship
- Spiders
- Spitsbergen
- Sri Lanka
- St. Helena
- Sticklebacks
- Succession
- Surf in the Tropics
- Surtsey
- Sustainability
- Taiwan, biology
- Taiwan, geology
- Tasmania
- Tatoosh
- Taxon cycle
- Tides
- Tierra del Fuego
- Tonga
- Tortoises
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island
- Tsunamis
- Vancouver
- Vanuatu
- Vegetation
- Vicariance
- Volcanic islands
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Wallace's line and other biogeographic boundaries
- Warming Island
- Whale Falls
- Whales and whaling
- Wizard Island
- Zanzibar.