文档介绍：Island Biogeography
Front cover image: Rapa (Austral Islands, French Polynesia) from Mt. Perahu. Photo
by R. G. Gillespie, taken on an expedition funded by La Délégation à la Recherche
and l’Institut Louis Malardé, Tahiti.
Back cover image: Kosrae (Micronesia) from the summit of Mt. Finkol. Photo by G. K.
Roderick and R. G. Gillespie, taken on an expedition funded by the National
Geographic Society.
Island
Biogeography
Ecology, evolution, and conservation
Second Edition
Robert J. Whittaker
School of Geography, University of Oxford, UK
and
José María Fernández-Palacios
Grupo de Investigación de Ecología Insular, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife
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