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Science 17 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3703, pp. 1587 - 1588
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3703.1587
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Avifauna: Turnover on Islands

Ernst Mayr 1

1 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

The percentage of endemic species of birds on islands increases with island area at a double logarithmic rate. This relation is apparently due to extinction, which is more rapid the smaller the island. The turnover resulting from extinction and replacement appears to be far more rapid than hitherto suspected.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The Theory of Island Biogeography. Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1967. 215 pp., illus. Cloth, $8; paper, $3.95. Monographs in Population Biology, No. 1.
T. H. Hamilton (1968)
Science 159, 71-72
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