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Island Biogeography and Conservation
Biology Islands as Natural Ecological
Experiments
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Krakatau, Indonesia
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Picture-winged Drosophila
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Male picture-winged flies fighting at a lek
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Species Area Curves S C A z log S log C
z log A Estimated z Values for Various
Terrestrial Plants and Animals on
Different Island Groups
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Fauna or flora
Island Group z
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Carabid beetles West
Indies 0.34 Ponerine ants Melanesia
0.30 Amphibians and reptiles West Indies
0.301 Breeding land and freshwater birds West
Indies 0.237 Breeding land and freshwater
birds East Indies 0.280 Breeding land and
freshwater birds East-Central Pacific
0.303 Breeding land and freshwater birds Islands
of Gulf of Guinea 0.489 Land vertebrates Isla
nds of Lake Michigan 0.239 Land
plants Galápagos Islands 0.325 ______________
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Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography
R. H. MacArthur
E. O. Wilson
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Freeport-McMoran Mine, Irian Jaya, New Guinea
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Conservation Biology Value of Biodiversity Hot
spots of diversity SLOSS debate, Design of Nature
Reserves Minimum viable population size Genetic
bottleneck Population viability
analysis Sensitivity analyses of Leslie
matrices Extinction vortex Habitat loss,
habitat fragmentation, small population size,
genetic and demographic stochasticity Toxic
pollution and climatic changes
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Different types of metapopulations
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Aldo Leopold
A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens
from conqueror of the land community to
plain member and citizen of it. It implies
respect for his fellow-members and also respect
for the community as such.