Sentences with phrase «island biogeography»
And Teresa, who reviews books on her blog, Shelf Love, had recently recommended to her readers Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction.
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On top of that I spent 2 of my undergrad years assisting one of my professors in his research on island biogeography and its impact on small mammals in the Thousand Island Region of NY.
«Once you think about rooms and buildings as ecological environments, you're really talking about island biogeography.»
By weighing all the factors, positive and negative, island biogeography was able to model the probability and frequency of extinctions.
The field of connectivity studies dates to the 1967 publication of The Theory of Island Biogeography, by R.H. MacArthur and E.O. Wilson.
In the classic view of ecosystems, outlined by Elton and later Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson in their theory of island biogeography, ecosystems run on a knife's edge: They are tightly structured, without much room for new competitors.
Their prediction of a town was based on a geographical theory called «island biogeography»: basically, that a species on a large island is much less likely to go extinct following a catastrophic event than a species on a small one.
On that trip I first saw the endemic island scrub jay (Aphelocoma insularis) and began to develop an understanding and interest in island biogeography.
There are many evolutionary implications of Snowball Earth because of the island biogeography it implies.