An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography

1963/12/01 by Robert H. MacArthur, Edward O. Wilson · 1,057 citations
Social Sciences · #Biogeography #Biology #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Zoogeography #Zoology

paper · doi:10.2307/2407089

published in Evolution 17(4), 373 (Oxford University Press)

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