Titlebook: Islands; Biological Diversity Peter M. Vitousek,Lloyd L. Loope,Henning Adsersen Book 1995 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995 Artenvielf

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Climate Change and Island Biological Diversityextinction necessarily follows. They recognized a mitigating circumstance, however, in that climatic changes on oceanic islands might be relatively mild because the sea would moderate the air temperature change.

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Ecosystem-Level Consequences of Species Additions and Deletions on Islands The abundance of species additions and deletions has led to growing concern about the relationship between biological diversity and the capacity of ecosystems to function and to provide the services on which humans depend (Ehrlich and Mooney 1983; Ehrlich and Wilson 1991; Kareiva et al. 1993; Lawton and Jones 1993; Schulze and Mooney 1993).

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Biological Diversity and Disturbance Regimes in Island Ecosystemssed on disturbance as the initiating cause of a chronosequence in community and vegetation development. The successional changes following a disturbance are often measured by changes in biological diversity.

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Vertebrate Patterns on Islandsits beginning, the scientific investigation of vertebrates on islands has emphasized evolutionary distinctness, and even today studies of ecological processes on islands include evolutionary processes as well.

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Evolution, Speciation, and the Genetic Structure of Island Populationsan . primarily due to the ecological fragility of islands. Thus, islands are extremely important not only for the field of Evolutionary Biology but also for the field of Conservation Biology, and the plants and animals that have evolved on islands have given scientists the opportunity to research on both these areas of biology.

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0070-8356 y are also generally simpler than continental ecosystems. Islands therefore provide an opportunity to determine the direct effects of biological diversity on ecosystem function. .The volume addresses the components of biological diversity on islands and their patterns of variation; the modern threat