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Island ecology. --- Islands --- Isles --- Islets --- Landforms --- Insular ecology --- Ecology --- Government policy.

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Biogeography --- Island ecology --- 573.3 --- biogeografie (ler) --- biologie --- Insular ecology --- Islands --- Ecology --- Areography (Biology) --- Geographical distribution of animals and plants --- Species --- Species distribution --- Biology --- Geography --- Geographical distribution

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Island ecology --- Island people --- Islands --- Social life and customs --- Earth Sciences --- Geography --- Island ecology. --- Island people. --- Islands. --- Social life and customs. --- Isles --- Islets --- Island peoples --- Insular ecology --- Ecology --- cultural geography --- island studies --- Landforms --- Ethnology

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New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and establishment of new biological communities. Studies carried out on islands like this have provided answers to fundamental questions as to what general principles are involved in the ecology of communities and what processes underlie and maintain the basic structure of ecosystems. These studies are vital for conservation biology, especially when evolutionary processes need to be maintained in systems in order to maintain biodiversity. The major themes are how animal and plant communities establish, particularly on 'new land' or following extirpations by volcanic activity. This book comprises a broad review of island colonization, bringing together succession models and general principles, case studies with which Professor Ian Thornton was intimately involved, and a synthesis of ideas, concluding with a look to the future for similar studies.

ECO Ecology --- island plants --- islands --- colonization --- community ecology --- communities --- ecosystems --- nature conservation --- bioconservation --- plant succession --- vulcanoes --- Island biological invasions. --- Island ecology. --- Insular ecology --- Islands --- Ecology --- Invasions, Island biological --- Island bioinvasions --- Island invasions (Biological invasions) --- Biological invasions

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This book is dedicated to the study of the islands and their role in a globalised world. Beside Coastal or Oceanic/Marine Geography, there is little comprehensive material about the speciality of small island geography so far. It aims to bridge natural, social and cultural science perspectives. In Geography of Small Islands readers learn about the physical development of islands, their cultural and political importance, as well as their economic particularities. This book appeals to researchers, students and scholars with an interest in the special characteristics in spatialities of islands.

Islands. --- Island ecology. --- Insular ecology --- Islands --- Isles --- Islets --- Ecology --- Geography. --- Economic geology. --- Economic geography. --- Physical geography. --- World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions). --- Economic Geography. --- Physical Geography. --- Economic Geology. --- Landforms --- Geology, economic. --- Economic geology --- Physical geology --- Mines and mineral resources --- Geography --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Commercial geography