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T1 Why islands?
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
K1 Islas
K1 museos
K1 laboratorios evolutivos
K1 radiación explosiva
K1 biodiversidad
K1 biología de la conservación
AB Ever since the first transoceanic expedition (XV century) islands worldwide have attracted the interest of voyagers, and, in recent centuries (XVIII-XX) especially from biogeographers, evolutionary biologists and ecologists. Some islands´  and archipelagoes´  special features, such as their quite diverse origin, their geographical settings and locations, their life cycle, their history, their well defined limits and, especially, their isolation, have made them outstanding life museums and laboartories. Using a wide variety of data from such islands, various different ecological and evolutionary hypotheses can be, and have been, tested. In fact, many fundamental theoretical concepts, central to the understanding of scientific disciplines such as ecology, biogeography, genetics, evolution and vulcanology, have resulted mainly or exclusively from island research.
PB Institut Menorquí d'Estudis
SN 978-84-95718-82-2
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/23529
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 15-ago-2024