Sunday, August 9, 2009

the theory of island biogeography

island faunas
depauperate can't compete
Earth meets galaxy

2 comments:

Richard H. Fay said...

Ah, invoking island biogeography brings me back to my days at university (I took a course on biogeography). And I can't help but to think of the title of that old science fiction flick "This Island Earth" when reading this scifaiku.

David Kopaska-Merkel said...

Did you ever read MacArthur and Wilson's "the theory of island biogeography"? A very difficult book at the beginning because of the mathematics. The last time I tried to read it I finally made it through that part and discovered that the rest of the book was a lot more intuitive.