Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

H. Warren, Ben; Simberloff, Daniel; E. Ricklefs, Robert; Aguilée, Robin; L. Condamine, Fabien; Gravel, Dominique; Morlon, Hélène; Mouquet, Nicolas; Rosindell, James; Casquet, Juliane; Conti, Elena; Cornuault, Josselin; María Fernández‐Palacios, José; Hengl, Tomislav; J. Norder, Sietze; F. Rijsdijk, Kenneth; Sanmartín, Isabel; Strasberg, Dominique; A. Triantis, Kostas; Valente, Luís; J. Whittaker, Robert; G. Gillespie, Rosemary; C. Emerson, Brent; Thébaud, Christophe

doi:10.1111/ele.12398

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Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

Published in Ecology Letters • Jan 6, 2015

Authors:

Ben H. Warren

Daniel Simberloff

Robert E. Ricklefs

Abstract

The study of islands as model systems has played an important role in the development of evolutionary and ecological theory. The 50th anniversary of MacArthur and Wilson's (December 1963) article, 'An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography', was a recent milestone for this theme. Since 1963, isl...

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Ecology

Evolutionary ecology

Ecological systems theory

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