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Encyclopedia of islands
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Date
c2009
Language
English
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Adaptive radiation
Anagenesis
Antarctic Islands, biology
Antarctic Islands, geology
Antilles, biology
Antilles, geology
Ants
Archaeology
Arctic Islands, biology
Arctic Islands, geology
Arctic Region
Ascension
Atlantic Region
Atolls
Azores
Baffin
Baja California: offshore islands
Barrier Islands
Barro Colorado
Beaches
Bermuda
Biological control
Bird disease
Bird radiations
Borneo
Britain and Ireland
Canary Islands, biology
Canary Islands, geology
Cape Verde Islands
Caroline Islands
Caves, as islands
Channel Islands (British Isles)
Channel Islands (California), biology
Channel Islands (California), geology
Cichlid fish
Climate change
Climate on islands
Cold seeps
Comoros
Continental Islands
Convergence
Cook Islands
Coral
Cozumel
Crickets
Cyprus
Darwin and geologic history
Deforestation
Dispersal
Dodo
Drosophila
Dwarfism
Earthquakes
Easter Island
Ecological release
Endemism
Ephemeral Islands, biology
Ephemeral Islands, geology
Erosion, coastal
Eruptions: Laki and Tambora
Ethnobotany
Exploration and discovery
Extinction.
Farallon Islands
Faroe Islands
Fernando de Noronha
Fiji, biology
Fiji, geology Fish stocks/overfishing
Flightlessness
Fossil birds
Founder effects
Fragmentation
Fraser Island
French Polynesia, biology
French Polynesia, geology
Freshwater habitats
Frogs
Galapagos Finches
Galapagos Islands, biology
Galapagos Islands, geology
Gigantism
Global warming
Granitic Islands
Great Barrier Reef Islands, biology
Great Barrier Reef Islands, geology
Greek Islands, biology
Greek Islands, geology
Hawaiian Islands, biology Hawaiian Islands, geology
Honeycreepers, Hawaiian
Human impacts, Pre-European
Hurricanes and typhoons
Hydrology
Hydrothermal vents
Iceland
Inbreeding
Indian Region
Indonesia, biology
Indonesia, geology
Insect radiations
Inselbergs
Introduced species
Invasion biology
Island arcs
Island biogeography, theory of
Island formation
Island Rule
Japan's islands, biology
Japan's islands, geology
Juan Fernandez Islands.
Kick 'em Jenny
Kipuka
Komodo Dragons
Kon-Tiki
Krakatau
Kurile Islands
Lakes, as islands
Land crabs on Christmas Island
Landslides
Land snails
Lava and ash
Lava tubes
Lemurs and tarsiers
Line islands
Lizard radiations
Lophelia oases
Lord Howe Island
Macquarie, biology
Macquarie, geology
Madagascar, biology
Madagascar, geology
Madeira Archipelago
Makatea Islands
Maldives
Mammal radiations
Mangrove Islands
Marianas, biology
Marianas, geology
Marine lakes
Marine protected areas
Marshall Islands
Mascarene Islands, biology
Mascarene Islands, geology
Mediterranean Region
Metapopulations
Midway
Missionaries, effects of
Moa
Motu
New Caledonia, biology
New Caledonia, geology
Newfoundland
New Guinea, biology
New Guinea, geology
New Zealand, biology
New Zealand, geology
Nuclear bomb testing
Oases
Oceanic Islands
Orchids
Organic falls on the ocean floor.
Pacific Region
Palau
Pantepui
Peopling the Pacific
Philippines, biology
Philippines, geology
Phosphate Islands
Pigs and goats
Pitcairn
Plant disease
Plate tectonics
Pocket basins and deep-sea speciation
Polynesian voyaging
Popular culture, islands in
Population genetics, island models in
Prisons and penal settlements
Radiation zone
Rafting
Reef ecology and conservation
Refugia
Relaxation
Research stations
Rodents
Rottnest Island
Samoa, biology
Samoa, geology
Sao Tome, Principe, and Annobon
Seabirds
Sea-level change
Seamounts, biology
Seamounts, geology
Sexual selection
Seychelles
Shipwrecks
Silverswords
Sky Islands
Snakes
Socotra Archipelago
Solomon Islands, biology
Solomon Islands, geology
Species-area relationship
Spiders
Spitsbergen
Sri Lanka
St. Helena
Sticklebacks
Succession
Surf in the Tropics
Surtsey
Sustainability.
Taiwan, biology
Taiwan, geology
Tasmania
Tatoosh
Taxon cycle
Tides
Tierra del Fuego
Tonga
Tortoises
Trinidad and Tobago
Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island
Tsunamis
Vancouver
Vanuatu
Vegetation
Vicariance
Volcanic islands
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace's line and other biogeographic boundaries
Warming Island
Whale Falls
Whales and whaling
Wizard Island
Zanzibar.
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9780520256491
9780520943728
9780520943728
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