Island Colonization

Author : Ian Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781139462310

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Island Colonization by Ian Thornton Pdf

New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and establishment of new biological communities. Studies carried out on islands like this have provided answers to fundamental questions as to what general principles are involved in the ecology of communities and what processes underlie and maintain the basic structure of ecosystems. These studies are vital for conservation biology, especially when evolutionary processes need to be maintained in systems in order to maintain biodiversity. The major themes are how animal and plant communities establish, particularly on 'new land' or following extirpations by volcanic activity. This book comprises a broad review of island colonization, bringing together succession models and general principles, case studies with which Professor Ian Thornton was intimately involved, and a synthesis of ideas, concluding with a look to the future for similar studies.

Author : Matthew F. Napolitano,Jessica H. Stone,Robert J. DiNapoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813066859

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The Archaeology of Island Colonization by Matthew F. Napolitano,Jessica H. Stone,Robert J. DiNapoli Pdf

This volume details how new theories and methods have recently advanced the archaeological study of initial human colonization of islands around the world, including in the southwest Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. This global perspective brings into comparison the wide variety of approaches used to study these early migrations and illuminates current debates in island archaeology. Evidence of island colonization is often difficult to find, especially in areas impacted by sea level rise, and these essays demonstrate how researchers have tackled this and other issues. Contributors show the potential of computer simulations of voyaging in determining the range of timing and origin points that were possible in the past. They discuss how Bayesian modeling helps address uncertainties and controversies surrounding radiocarbon dating. Additionally, advances in biomolecular techniques such as ancient DNA (aDNA), paleoproteomics, analysis of human microbiota, and improved resolution in isotopic analyses are providing more refined information on the homelands of initial settlers, on individual life courses, and on population-level migrations. Islands offer rich opportunities to examine the exploratory nature of the human species, providing insights into the evolution of watercraft technologies and wayfinding, the impact of humans on their new environments, and the motivations for their journeys. The Archaeology of Island Colonization represents the innovative ways today's archaeologists are reconstructing these unique paleolandscapes. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson

Author : Matthew F. Napolitano,Jessica H. Stone,Robert J. DiNapoli
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057781

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The Archaeology of Island Colonization by Matthew F. Napolitano,Jessica H. Stone,Robert J. DiNapoli Pdf

This volume details how new theories and methods have recently advanced the archaeological study of initial human colonization of islands around the world, including in the southwest Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. This global perspective brings into comparison the wide variety of approaches used to study these early migrations and illuminates current debates in island archaeology. Evidence of island colonization is often difficult to find, especially in areas impacted by sea-level rise, and these essays demonstrate how researchers have tackled this and other issues. Contributors show the potential of computer simulations of voyaging in determining the range of timing and origin points that were possible in the past. They discuss how Bayesian modeling helps address uncertainties and controversies surrounding radiocarbon dating. Additionally, advances in biomolecular techniques such as ancient DNA (aDNA), paleoproteomics, analysis of human microbiota, and improved resolution in isotopic analyses are providing more refined information on the homelands of initial settlers, on individual life courses, and on population-level migrations. Islands offer rich opportunities to examine the exploratory nature of the human species, providing insights into the evolution of watercraft technologies and wayfinding, the impact of humans on their new environments, and the motivations for their journeys. The Archaeology of Island Colonization represents the innovative ways today’s archaeologists are reconstructing these unique paleolandscapes. Contributors: Nasullah Aziz | David Ball | Todd J. Braje | Richard Callaghan | John F. Cherry | Ethan Cochrane | Robert J. DiNapoli | Andrew Dugmore | Jon M. Erlandson | Scott M. Fitzpatrick | Amy E. Gusick | Derek Hamilton | Terry L. Hunt | Thomas P. Leppard | Carl P. Lipo | Jillian Maloney | Matthew F. Napolitano | Anthony Newton | Maria A. Nieves-Colón | Rintaro Ono | Adhi Agus Oktaviana | Timothy Rieth | Curtis Runnels | Magdalena M.E. Schmid | Alexander J. Smith | Harry Octavianus Sofian | Sriwigati | Jessica H. Stone | Orri Vésteinsson A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson

Author : Professor of Psychology Ian Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Island biological invasions
ISBN : 0511275331

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Island Colonization: The Origin and Development of Island Communities by Professor of Psychology Ian Thornton Pdf

A personal and readable review of how plants and animals colonize islands.

Author : Atholl John Anderson,Geoffrey Clark,Greger Larson,Krish Seetah,Simon Haberle
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889763375

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Early Human Colonization of Remote Indian Ocean Islands and its Ecological Impacts by Atholl John Anderson,Geoffrey Clark,Greger Larson,Krish Seetah,Simon Haberle Pdf

Author : John D. Belshaw
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773570405

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Colonization and Community by John D. Belshaw Pdf

In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture.

Author : Rod Edmond,Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415286662

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Islands in History and Representation by Rod Edmond,Vanessa Smith Pdf

With contributions from an international range of leading authorities on literature, history, art and geography, this book discusses the cultural significance of islands.

Author : Jonathan B. Losos,Robert E. Ricklefs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400831920

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The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited by Jonathan B. Losos,Robert E. Ricklefs Pdf

Robert H. MacArthur 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 MacArthur 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--MacArthur and Wilson's original ideas. Providing a broad picture of the fundamental ways in which the science of island biogeography has been shaped by MacArthur and Wilson's landmark work, The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited also points the way toward exciting future research.

Author : Robert H. MacArthur,Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691088365

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The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert H. MacArthur,Edward O. Wilson Pdf

Population theory.

Author : Adam J. Barker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774865432

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Making and Breaking Settler Space by Adam J. Barker Pdf

Five hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation that are embedded not only in imperialism but also in contemporary contexts that include problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies. Unflinchingly engaging with the systemic weaknesses of this process, he proposes an innovative, unified spatial theory of settler colonization in Canada and the United States that offers a framework within which settlers can pursue decolonial actions in solidarity with Indigenous communities.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605254

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The Caribbean Before Columbus by William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman Pdf

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. Ranging from low limestone islands to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks, from rainforests to desert habitats, they are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Yet this diversity has become homogenized, for both the tourist and the historian. For instance, it was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans - the paleo-Indians - in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean. -- from back cover.

Author : Theodore H. Fleming,Paul A. Racey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226253312

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Island Bats by Theodore H. Fleming,Paul A. Racey Pdf

The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated oceanic islands, where more than half of all bat species live. These island bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of the earth’s biological diversity. Island Bats is the first book to focus solely on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of bats living in the world’s island ecosystems. Among other topics, the contributors to this volume examine how the earth’s history has affected the evolution of island bats, investigate how bat populations are affected by volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, and explore the threat of extinction from human disturbance. Geographically diverse, the volume includes studies of the islands of the Caribbean, the Western Indian Ocean, Micronesia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Zealand. With its wealth of information from long-term studies, Island Bats provides timely and valuable information about how this fauna has evolved and how it can be conserved.

Author : Stephen Royle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857711564

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The Company's Island by Stephen Royle Pdf

As English adventurer Francis Drake and his contemporaries opened up seaborne trade with Asia and the East, so dreams of untold wealth fuelled the appetites of European nations. A new form of co-operation arose between governments and entrepreneurs - the merchant company. Vital to the entire commercial and colonial endeavour, part of the story of Empire lies in the outposts they established."The Company's Island" focuses upon one such company colony - St Helena. With no indigenous population on the island, the East India Company had to establish a society from scratch but far from settling 'in love and amity' a repressive and turbulent regime ensued. The civilian population rebelled, the garrison mutinied, assassinating the governor, and a rebellion by black slaves was savagely punished. The result is a vivid, compelling tale involving issues of race, morality, gender, trade and defence within the context of Empire. Drawing on new archival material, the author sheds fresh light on an important yet little known aspect of the colonial endeavour.

Author : Moshe Rapaport
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1573060836

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The Pacific Islands by Moshe Rapaport Pdf

Academic survey of the Pacific Islands. Includes maps, photographs, tables, diagrams, atlas, and detailed index.

Author : Richard Charles Mayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1104171384

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Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island by Richard Charles Mayne Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.