Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates

Name: Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
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ISBN: 9781108052832

ISBN-10: 1108052835

ISBN-13: 9781108052832

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alfred Russel Wallace

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First published in 1880, this study of the biology and geography of islands investigates some of the most pressing questions of nineteenth-century natural science. Why do countries as far-flung as Britain and Japan share similar flora and fauna when those of neighbouring islands in Malaysia are utterly unalike? What is the origin of life in New Zealand? And why do the geological formations of Scotland and Wales appear to be the result of glaciers when those countries lie in the temperate zone? Dismissing popular theories of submerged continents and 'special creation', Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) presents extensive evidence of the mass migration of species, and of drastic and repeated…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 558
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface



The Dispersal of Organisms



Introductory



The elementary facts of distribution



Classification of the facts of distribution



Evolution as the key to distribution



The powers of dispersal of animals and plants



Geographical and geological changes



Changes of climate which have influenced the dispersal of organisms



The causes of glacial epochs



Ancient glacial epochs, and mild climates in the Arctic regions



The earth's age, and the rate of development of animals and plants



Insular Faunas and Floras



The classification of islands



Oceanic islands



The Galapagos Islands



St Helena



The Sandwich Islands



Continental islands of recent origin



Borneo and Java



Japan and Formosa



Ancient continental islands



Anomalous islands: Celebes



Anomalous islands: New Zealand



The flora of New Zealand



On the Arctic element in south temperate floras



Summary and conclusion


Index