Table of Contents

Part 1 - Islands as Natural Laboratories
1: The natural laboratory paradigm
2: Island environments
3: The biogeography of island life: biodiversity hotspots in context
Part 2- Island Ecology
4: Species number games: the macroecology of island biotas
5: Community assembly and dynamics
6: Scale and island ecological theory: towards a new synthesis
Part 3- Island Evolution
7: Arrival and change
8: Speciation and the island condition
9: Emergent models of island evolution
Part 4- Islands and Conservation
10: Island theory and conservation
11: Anthropogenic losses and threats to island ecosystems
12: Island remedies: the conservation of islands ecosystems

About the Author

Robert J. Whittaker is Professor of Biogeography at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment

Jose Maria Fernandez-Palacios is Professor of Ecology at the La Laguna University, Tenerife