Preface to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition vii Preface xi Symbols Used xiii 1. The Importance of Islands 3 2. Area and Number of Speicies 8 3. Further Explanations of the Area-Diversity Pattern 19 4. The Strategy of Colonization 68 5. Invasibility and the Variable Niche 94 6. Stepping Stones and Biotic Exchange 123 7. Evolutionary Changes Following Colonization 145 8. Prospect 181 Glossary 185 References 193 Index 201

The Theory of Island Biogeography

The human influence on seabird nesting success: Conservation implications

Paleozoological data reveal past conditions created by anthropogenic and natural processes. These conditions can serve as benchmarks of ecological properties and processes desired by conservation biologists. Paleozoological data provide empirical evidence analogous to experimental results of anthropogenic and environmental causes. They can be used to determine whether a taxon is native or exotic to an area, distinguish invasive from recolonizing taxa, choose a management action likely to produce a desired result, test benchmarks based on historic data, reveal unanticipated effects of conservation efforts, and identify causes of ecological conditions. It is time to use paleoecological knowledge in the service of modern conservation biology.

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Paleozoology in the service of conservation biology

Environmental status of the Gulf of California: A pollution review

http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org XXXX XXXX / Vol. XX No. X • BioScience 1 BioScience XX: 1–11. © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw026 Advance Access publication XXXX XX, XXXX The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity

The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity

Unknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California

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Seri Prehistory: The Archaeology of the Central Coast of Sonora, Mexico.

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Seri Prehistory: The Archaeology of the Central Coast of Sonora, Mexico

Environmental limits of animal life are invariably revised when the animals themselves are investigated in their natural habitats. Here we report results of a scientific mountaineering expedition to survey the high-altitude rodent fauna of Volcan Llullaillaco in the Puna de Atacama of northern Chile, an effort motivated by video documentation of mice (genus Phyllotis) at a record altitude of 6,205 m. Among numerous trapping records at altitudes of >5,000 m, we captured a specimen of the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis xanthopygus rupestris) on the very summit of Llullaillaco at 6,739 m. This summit specimen represents an altitudinal world record for mammals, far surpassing all specimen-based records from the Himalayas and other mountain ranges. This discovery suggests that we may have generally underestimated the altitudinal range limits and physiological tolerances of small mammals simply because the world's high summits remain relatively unexplored by biologists.

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Discovery of the world's highest-dwelling mammal.

Environmental limits of animal life are invariably revised upwards when the animals themselves are investigated in their natural habitats. Here we report results of a scientific mountaineering expedition to survey the high-altitude rodent fauna of Volcan Llullaillaco in the Puna de Atacama of northern Chile, an effort motivated by video documentation of mice (genus Phyllotis) at a record altitude of 6205 m. Among numerous trapping records at altitudes >5000 m, we captured a specimen of the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis xanthopygus rupestris) on the very summit of Llullaillaco at 6739 m. This summit specimen represents an altitudinal world record for mammals, far surpassing all specimen-based records from the Himalayas and elsewhere in the Andes. This discovery suggests that we may have generally underestimated the altitudinal range limits and physiological tolerances of small mammals simply because the world’s highest summits remain relatively unexplored by biologists.

https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.989822v1.full.pdf

Thomas Bowen

Papers

Unknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California

Seri Prehistory: The Archaeology of the Central Coast of Sonora, Mexico.

Seri Prehistory: The Archaeology of the Central Coast of Sonora, Mexico

Discovery of the world's highest-dwelling mammal.

Discovery of the world's highest-dwelling mammal