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The theory of island biogeography revisited / edited by Jonathan B. Losos and Robert E. Ricklefs.

       p. cm.

Includes index.

Derived from a meeting held at Harvard in October 2007 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The theory of island biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson.

ISBN 978-0-691-13652-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-691-13653-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Biogeography—Congresses. 2. Island ecology—Congresses. I. Losos, Jonathan B. II. Ricklefs, Robert E. III. MacArthur, Robert H. Theory of island biogeography.

QH85.T44 2010

578.75'2—dc22

2009010056

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