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population, 188, 409, 412, 418–19, 538
birdpox virus, 316–17, 318, 320
birds:
ant-following, 346, 471
and avian malaria, 316–17, 320, 342–43
of Bali, 25, 137
banding of, 496–98
of Barro Colorado, 447
beak modifications, 221
of Bismarck, 476, 477, 481
captive-reared, 557–58
of Channel Islands, 473
dispersal of species, 146–47, 148, 192, 195–96, 199–200
ecological naïveté of, 267–68
elephant, see elephant birds
endangered-species work with, 556–58, 565–66
extinct, 262, 267, 268, 313, 346, 347, 378–79, 606–7
in fazendas, 470–71
flightless, 137, 138, 139, 174, 192–97, 261
forest-dwelling, 322–24
fostering chicks of, 556
ground nests of, 346, 347
of Guam, 322–37
hacking technique with, 556, 558
of Hawaii, 313, 316–21, 379
of Indonesia, 414, 421
ingenuous nesting behavior of, 204, 206
of Java, 25, 97
land, 147, 148
lekking behavior of, 620
of New Guinea, 414
on páramo islands, 437
and pesticides, 553
of Philippines, 414
pulling eggs from nests of, 557, 559–61, 565–66
of Rakata, 425–26
ratites, 194–97
rescue efforts for, 276–77, 551, 557–58
sea, 138, 146–47, 148, 193
size of, 174, 193, 197
umbrella, 66–67
birds of paradise, 31, 84–85, 609, 612
black market in, 618, 619
cenderawasih, 616, 617–18
greater, 32, 85, 94, 95, 97, 618, 620
king, 85, 91–92, 95, 97, 609
ribbon-tailed, 18, 138
song of, 625
and Wallace’s Line, 26, 98
birdwing butterflies, 83, 89, 105–6, 107
Bismarck Archipelago, birds, 476, 477, 481
bisons, 30
Black Dick and Jack, hanging of, 358–59
Black Line, and Aborigines, 360–61, 364
Black River Gorges, Mauritius, 270–71, 272, 276, 552–54, 557, 559, 566
Black War (Turnbull), 358
Blue Book, of conservation biology, 537–38, 542, 569
Blyth, Edward, 40, 102
boa constrictor, on floating island, 145
Bob Marshall Wilderness, 627
bobolinks, American (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), 227
Boiga irregularis (brown tree snake), 324–37
Bomhus (bees), 252
boobies, 148, 204, 613
boodies, 512
boreal, defined, 635
Borneo, 52
birds of, 97
and floating islands, 145
and New Guinea, 100
and Sunda Shelf, 50
and Wallace’s Line, 25–26, 97
Bowler, Peter J., 225
Brachymeles burksi (legless skink), 138
Brachyteles arachnoides (muriqui), 573–76, 578, 584–92
Brackman, Arnold, 112
Brazil, 30
Atlantic forest, 573–76, 578
Cunha State Reserve, 586
fazendas in, see fazendas
Forest Fragments Project, 454–55, 465
human impact in, 573–74, 575
INPA, 465
Rio, 578–83
Wallace in, 59, 62–72
see also Amazon
breeding, captive:
of kestrels, 556, 557
of muriquis, 586, 589–90
breeding participation, 526
breeding threshold, 285–86
broadbills, 97
Brooke, Sir James, 83
Brooks, John Langdon, 108, 111–12, 113
Brown, James H., 437–40, 443, 445, 447, 463
Brown Book, of conservation biology, 529, 568, 569
Browne, Janet, 34, 37
Bruny Island, Aborigines, 360, 361, 362, 365
Bryce Canyon National Park:
gray wolf, 492
red fox, 11, 489, 510
size of, 492, 510
Buffon, Georges, 20
Bugi people of Celebes, 84
bumblebees (Bombus), 252
Burchell’s zebra (Equus burchelli), 133, 134, 136
bushmasters (Lachesis mutus), 496
bushrangers, runaway convicts, 283, 355, 357, 358
butterflies, 65, 89, 471
birdwing, 83, 89, 105–6, 107
Euploea eleutho, 339
on Guam, 338–39
Morpho, 52, 471
pale-winged peacock, 89
spectre, 89
swallowtail, 93, 94, 338–39
buzzards, European, 555
Cade, Tom, 556
Cadiz Township, Wisconsin, Curtis’s maps of, 441
Cagar Alam Wae Wuul reserve, Flores, 164, 402–5
caimans, 30
California:
Baja, and extinction, 264
and Channel Islands, 154–56
condors, 537
Gulf of, see Gulf of California
and habitat loss, 532
Lassen Volcanic National Park, 492
Santa Barbara Channel, 155
Santa Catalina island, 18, 138, 204
Calvaria major (tree species), 345, 347–52
Camarhynchus (tree finch), 223
Cambodia, elephants, 154
Canada, national parks of, 487–93, 627–28
Canary Islands:
and Lyell, 48, 54, 55
and von Buch, 129
Canis dingo, 32, 288–89
Canis lupus (gray wolf), 488, 492
Cañon de las Palmas, 183, 185
canonical distribution:
defined, 635
and internal equilibrium, 393
and Preston, 410, 414
and species-area relationship, 389–91, 393
Cape Barren Island, 289
Aborigines, 375
and local extinction, 292
and species-area relationship, 290
Cape Verde Islands, skinks, 158, 379
Caprimulgus affinis (savanna nightjar), 150
Cap Saint Marie reserve, Madagascar, 510
captive breeding:
of kestrels, 556, 557
of muriquis, 586, 589–90
captive rearing, 556, 557–58
capybaras, 30–31
Carabidae (ground beetles), 201–3
Caribbean, hutias, 152
Carlia fusca (skink), 337
Carson, Rachel, 538
Case, Ted J., 177–92, 329, 380, 394
on Angel de la Guarda, 180–88, 189–92, 394, 531
background and career of, 188–89
and giant chuckwallas, 177, 182, 185–87, 189–92
and Gilpin, 475, 476
and mathematical models, 178
and size change, 177–80, 188
cassowaries, 32, 91, 98
Australian, 97, 174, 195
dwarf, 101, 137, 174
of New Guinea, 137, 174, 195
Casuarina equisetifolia (tamarisk-like tree), 143, 149–50
Casuarius bennetti (dwarf cassowary), 101, 137, 174
C. casuarius (Australian cassowary), 97, 174, 195
catastrophes:
and extinction, 381, 516, 517
and SLOSS, 473–74
cats:
endemic, 256
margay, 470
marsupial, 137, 285, 292–93
Caves as Islands (Culver), 437, 443
Celebes, 25–26, 83–84
birds of, 97
Bugi people, 84
as Sulawesi, 145
Celestus occiduus (anguid lizard), 158
census population, 526, 635, 636
centipedes, 148
Central America, rainforest destruction in, 442
Cepbalopterus ornatus (umbrella-birds), 66–67
Cephalostachyum perrieri (bamboo), 238, 247, 248–49
C. viguieri, 235, 247
Cerapachyinae (ants), 411
Cervus timorensis (rusa deer), 163
Ceylon (Sri Lanka):
and India, 98, 256
swimming elephants, 153, 154
Chalinolobus tuberculatus (bat), 152
Chambers, Robert, and evolution, 60–61, 128, 129
chameleons:
of Madagascar, 18, 509
smallest, 18
chance, 494, 542
Channel Islands:
birds, 473
and California, 154–56
elephantids, 154–56, 157, 174
night lizards, 158
characteristics, acquired, 200
Charles Darwin Research Station, Galápagos, 208
Charles Island, mockingbirds, 216
Chatham Island, mockingbirds, 216
Cheke, Anthony S., 351
chickens, and diseases, 320
Chinese rose beetles, 338
chipmunks, Uinta, 438, 440
Chiropotes satanus (bearded saki), 470
Christmas Island musk shrew, 378
Christo, islands wrapped by, 429
chromosomes, giant, 231–32
chuckwallas, giant, 137, 182, 183, 185, 186, 252
and Case, 177, 182, 185–87, 189–92
ecology of, 188
effect of drought on, 186–87, 189, 190, 191–92
life history of, 191–92
Cichlidae (fishes), 232–34
Cicinnurus regius (king bird of paradise), 85, 91–92, 95, 97, 609
Ciridops anna (honeycreeper), 320–21
Clarion Island, lizards, 204
Clark, Ronald W., 225
Clarke Island, 289, 290
coatimundis, 346–47
Cochrane, Fanny, 373–74
cockatoos:
black, 91, 92, 97
sulphur-crested, 97
and Wallace’s Line, 26, 98
white, 25, 30, 31
cockroaches, giant, 138, 174, 193
Cocos island, finches, 222
Cocos nucifera (coconut palm), 143, 144
Coleoptera (beetles), 197–204
colonization:
and dispersal ability, see dispersal ability
and equilibrium, 415, 422, 430
and establishment, 144, 287
of islands, 141–49, 414, 425
coloration:
protective, 204, 206
variations in, 231, 238–39, 252
Columbus, Christopher, 30, 37
community attributes, 139–40
commonness and rarity, 390, 392–93
and synecology, 481
community-based conservation, 628–29
community ecology, 418, 447, 482
Comoros Islands, 241
competition:
and adaptive radiation, 218, 223, 230, 246
alien, 285, 289, 381
defined, 218
and extinction, 381
interspecific, see interspecific competition
and predation, 175, 179, 193, 381
and speciation, 246
sperm, 585–86
and sympatry, 223–24
Compositae (plant family), 142–43
computer modeling, 595–601
condors, California, 537
Connor, Edward F., 477–78
Conolophus (land iguanas), 157
conservation:
and autecology 481, 483, 485–86
community-based, 628–29
of diversity, 380, 494
genetical, 532–33
goal for, 493–94
in human-occupied landscapes, 628
international, 480
islands of, 443, 444–46
money as factor in, 551
planning for, 446–47, 460, 463, 481, 483, 485, 513–15
and SLOSS, 446, 457, 460, 472, 480
and synecology, 481
Conservation and Evolution (Soulé and Frankel), 532–33, 569
conservation biology, 529–35, 569–72, 629
Blue Book, 537–38, 542, 569
Brown Book, 529, 568, 569
conferences, 537–38, 570–72
and Darwin, 538
defined, 530
Gray Book, 569
Green Book, 532–33, 569
historical figures in, 538
and island biogeography, 539
professionals in, 570
theory vs. practice of, 569, 571
vortex idea in, 571–72, 575
Yellow Book, 572, 629
Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective (Brown Book), 529, 568, 569
Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity (Yellow Book), 572, 629
Conservation for the Twenty-first Century, 629
Continental Divide ecosystem, 627
continental drift, 195–96, 241–42, 256
continental islands, 635
vs. oceanic islands, 52, 53–54, 257, 287
Cook, Capt. James:
and domestic animals, 317
and ecosystem disruption, 313, 317
voyages of, 32–33, 38–39, 313, 385
coral:
islands of, 459
and oceanic islands, 53
cormorants, flightless, 138, 139, 193, 197
Corsica, fossil deer, 156
Corvus kubaryi (Mariana crow), 204, 322, 327
Costa Rica, and SLOSS, 480, 526
Covington, Syms, 228
crabs, land, 148
Craighead, Frank and John, 514
Crater Lake National Park, 489
Crateromys (cloud rat), 152
creation, see special creation
Cretaceous extinction, 606, 608
Crete:
elephantids, 153, 157
fossil deer, 156
hippopotamus fossils, 156
crickets, flightless, 137, 193
crocodilians:
