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Encyclopedia of islands / edited by Rosemary G. Gillespie, David A. Clague.

Series

Encyclopedias of the natural world ; no. 2
Encyclopedias of the natural world ; no. 2.

Published

Berkeley : University of California Press [2009]

Physical description

1 online resource (xxxii, 1074 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

ISBN

9780520943728
0520943724
9780520256491
0520256492

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.

Contents

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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