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Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
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Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological diversity. Island Life has long been considered one of his most important works. In it he extends studies on the influence of the glacial epochs on organismal distribution patterns and the characteristics of island biogeography, a topic as vibrant and actively studied today as it was in 1880. The book includes history's first theory of contin.
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Keywords
- Biogeography
- GITenberg
- Glacial epoch
- Island ecology
- QH
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