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Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This book examines many such insular settings - oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean.

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"A MUST-have for anyone with an interest in islands!" Scienceblogs.com/The Guardian "This excellent interdisciplinary reference work is useful for anyone interested in island science, including scholars and researchers... Highly recommended." Choice "The encyclopedia reaches out to a broad audience." Qtly Review Of Biology "Happily spend hours flicking from one article to another, learning something while celebrating the wonderful diversity that is the world's islands." Frontiers Of Biogeography

Encyclopedia of Islands

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    A Hardback by Rosemary G Gillespie, David Clague

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 8/19/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780520256491
      978-0520256491
      ISBN-10 0520256492

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      Book Synopsis
      Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This book examines many such insular settings - oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean.

      Trade Review
      "A MUST-have for anyone with an interest in islands!" Scienceblogs.com/The Guardian "This excellent interdisciplinary reference work is useful for anyone interested in island science, including scholars and researchers... Highly recommended." Choice "The encyclopedia reaches out to a broad audience." Qtly Review Of Biology "Happily spend hours flicking from one article to another, learning something while celebrating the wonderful diversity that is the world's islands." Frontiers Of Biogeography

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