Robert H. Mac Arthur and Edward O. Wilson’s The Theory of Island Biogeography, first published by Princeton in 1967, is one of the most influential books on ecology and evolution to appear in the past half century. By developing a general mathematical theory to explain a crucial ecological problem–the regulation of species diversity in island populations–the book transformed the science of biogeography and ecology as a whole. In The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited, some of today’s most prominent biologists assess the continuing impact of Mac Arthur and Wilson’s book four decades after its publication. Following an opening chapter in which Wilson reflects on island biogeography in the 1960s, fifteen chapters evaluate and demonstrate how the field has extended and confirmed–as well as challenged and modified–Mac Arthur and Wilson’s original ideas. Providing a broad picture of the fundamental ways in which the science of island biogeography has been shaped by Mac Arthur and Wilson’s landmark work, The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited also points the way toward exciting future research.
About the author
Jonathan B. Losos is professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the curator of herpetology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.Robert E. Ricklefs is the Curators’ Professor of Biology at University of Missouri, St. Louis.
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