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Island Biogeography. Krakatau – before and after 1883 eruption.

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1 Island Biogeography

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4 Krakatau – before and after 1883 eruption

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6 Aerial photo of Anak Krakatau and Krakatau

7 Krakatau today

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9 Central American Coati

10 Mangrove islands off the Florida coast

11 Mangrove Island Close-Up

12 Dan Simberloff on Mandolin Nick Gotelli on Guitar

13 Simberloff’s defaunation experiment on Mangroves

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15 Bracken Fern

16 Bracken Fern - Australia

17 Number of species found on Bracken Fern

18 Picture Winged Drosophila

19 Picture Winged Drosophila – more than 500 species from 1 ancestor

20 http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/research_news/

21 Cichlid Diversity

22 African Rift Lakes

23 Cichlids from Lake Tanganyika (left) and Lake Malawi (right)

24 Rift Lake Age, Cichlid Diversity LakeAge# Cichlid Species Lake Tanganyika12 Million years old~250 Lake Malawi5 Million years old~700 Lake Victoria250,000 to 750,000~700

25 Back to Fragmentation

26 Elk Migration – Yellowstone - late spring to higher meadows

27 Pika – victim of climate change?

28 Edge effects and island size

29 Overexploitation Tokyo Tuna Market

30 Woolly Mammoth

31 Giant Elk or Irish Elk

32 Giant Ground Sloth – 4 m tall

33 Dire wolf – Canis dirus

34 Polynesian Migrations

35 Maori Migration to New Zealand

36 Upland Moa

37 Moa Size

38 Moa Sizes

39 Nene – Hawaiian flightless goose

40 Elephant Bird - Madagascar

41 Carolina Parakeet

42 Labrador Duck

43 Great Auk

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