The mismeasure of islands: implications for biogeographical theory and the conservation of nature
The mismeasure of islands: implications for biogeographical theory and the conservation of nature
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岛屿的错误测量：对生物地理学理论和自然保护的影响
DOI：
10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.00989.x
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2004
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H. Walter
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作者：
H. Walter
对地点而不是空间的关注为地理提供了一个强大的理由être。与人文地理学一样，地点的功能作用对于理解生物类群的进化、持续和灭绝是不可或缺的。本文从地理学而不是生态学或进化论的角度重新审视了概念和生物地理学证据。功能区域学为后现代解构岛屿生物地理学动态平衡理论（ETIB）的主要原理提供了令人信服的论据。由于长期的岛屿稳定性、禁闭、隔离和保护免受大陆入侵和干扰，特有的海洋岛屿分类群在功能上是孤立的。大多数大陆分类群存在于不同的、更复杂的、开放的空间系统中；因此，它们的地理位置与海洋岛屿分类群的功能性孤岛有着根本的区别。这在生物地理学中创造了岛屿-大陆极性，目前在保护理论中没有反映出来。对生物地理场所的关注导致了特征地概念的发展，特征地概念被定义为存在的功能空间综合体。仍然流行的ETIB概念在保护生物学中的应用是不鼓励的。作者呼吁将功能区划学纳入现代保护科学。
The focus on place rather than space provides geography with a powerful raison d’être. As in human geography, the functional role of place is integral to the understanding of evolution, persistence and extinction of biotic taxa. This paper re‐examines concepts and biogeographical evidence from a geographical rather than ecological or evolutionary perspective. Functional areography provides convincing arguments for a postmodern deconstruction of major principles of the dynamic Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography (ETIB). Endemic oceanic island taxa are functionally insular as a result of long‐term island stability, confinement, isolation, and protection from continental invasion and disturbance. Most continental taxa persist in different, more complex and open spatial systems; their geographical place is therefore fundamentally distinct from the functional insularity of oceanic island taxa. This creates an insular‐continental polarity in biogeography that is currently not reflected in conservation theory. The focus on the biogeographical place leads to the development of the eigenplace concept defined as the functional spatial complex of existence. The application of still popular ETIB concepts in conservation biology is discouraged. The author calls for the integration of functional areography into modern conservation science.