Island Life

Island Life

Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist (1890-1913)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

-04- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

-05- PART I. THE DISPERSAL OF ORGANISMS ITS PHENOMENA

-06- INTRODUCTORY

-07- THE ELEMENTARY FACTS OF DISTRIBUTION

-08- CLASSIFICATION OF THE FACTS OF DISTRIBUTION

-09- EVOLUTION THE KEY TO DISTRIBUTION

-10- THE POWERS OF DISPERSAL OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS

-11- GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL CHANGES

-12- CHANGES OF CLIMATE

-13- THE CAUSES OF GLACIAL EPOCHS

-14- ANCIENT GLACIAL EPOCHS

-15- THE EARTH'S AGE

-16- PART II. INSULAR FAUNAS AND FLORAS

-17- THE CLASSIFICATION OF ISLANDS

-18- OCEANIC ISLANDS

-19- THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS

-20- ST. HELENA

-21- THE SANDWICH ISLANDS

-22- CONTINENTAL ISLANDS OF RECENT ORIGIN

-23- BORNEO AND JAVA

-24- JAPAN AND FORMOSA

-25- ANCIENT CONTINENTAL ISLANDS

-26- ANOMALOUS ISLANDS CELEBES

-27- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XX

-28- ANOMALOUS ISLANDS

-29- THE FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND

-30- ON THE ARCTIC ELEMENT IN SOUTH TEMPERATE FLORAS

-31- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

-32- FOOTNOTES