Contents

Foreword by Robert M. May

Preface by Jonathan B. Losos and Robert E. Ricklefs

List of Contributors

Island Biogeography in the 1960s

Theory and Experiment

by Edward O. Wilson

Island Biogeography Theory

Reticulations and Reintegration of “a Biogeography of the Species”

by Mark V. Lomolino, James H. Brown, and Dov. F. Sax

The MacArthur-Wilson Equilibrium Model

A Chronicle of What It Said and How It Was Tested

by Thomas W. Schoener

A General Dynamic Theory of Oceanic Island Biogeography

Extending the MacArthur-Wilson Theory to Accommodate the Rise and Fall of Volcanic Islands

by Robert J. Whittaker, Kostas A. Triantis, and Richard J. Ladle

The Trophic Cascade on Islands

by John Terborgh

Toward a Trophic Island Biogeography

Reflections on the Interface of Island Biogeography and Food Web Ecology

by Robert D. Holt

The Theories of Island Biogeography and Metapopulation Dynamics

Science Marches Forward, but the Legacy of Good Ideas Lasts for a Long Time

by Ilkka Hanski

Beyond Island Biogeography Theory

Understanding Habitat Fragmentation in the Real World

by William F. Laurance

Birds of the Solomon Islands

The Domain of the Dynamic Equilibrium Theory and Assembly Rules, with Comments on the Taxon Cycle

by Daniel Simberloff and Michael D. Collins

Neutral Theory and the Theory of Island Biogeography

by Stephen P. Hubbell

Evolutionary Changes Following Island Colonization in Birds

Empirical Insights into the Roles of Microevolutionary Processes

by Sonya Clegg

Sympatric Speciation, Immigration, and Hybridization in Island Birds

by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant

Island Biogeography of Remote Archipelagoes

Interplay between Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

by Rosemary G. Gillespie and Bruce G. Baldwin

Dynamics of Colonization and Extinction on Islands

Insights from Lesser Antillean Birds

by Robert E. Ricklefs

The Speciation-Area Relationship

by Jonathan B. Losos and Christina E. Parent

Ecological and Genetic Models of Diversity

Lessons across Disciplines

by Mark Vellend and John L. Orrock

Index