The Theory of Island Biogeography

MacArthur, R. H., & Wilson, E. O. (1967). The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton University Press.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1967

Link

https://archive.org/details/RobertH.MacArthurEdwardO.WilsonTheTheoryOfIslandBiogeographyMonographsInPopulationBiologyV10matched

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biology_ecology

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Primes

• Turnover
  • The dynamic-equilibrium framing that ecology uses for island species counts (a standing level held by balanced immigration and extinction) is the same framing operations research uses for queue lengths and inventory levels, and the same one demography uses for stable populations.

    This sourceEstablishes the standing species count of an island as a dynamic equilibrium between immigration and extinction — the canonical dynamic-equilibrium framing of a steady-state standing level that ecology, operations research (queue lengths), and demography (stable populations) share as a common turnover steady state.

Domain-specific

• Heaps' Law
  • Species accumulation in ecology (distinct species discovered scaling as a power of sampling effort — Heaps' law exactly when the effort is counted in individuals; the more familiar species–area relationship, β ≈ 0.2–0.4, counts area instead and inherits the form only through a constant-density mapping)

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