Derived from a meeting held at Harvard in October 2007 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The theory of island biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Island biogeography in the 1960s : theory and experiment / Edward O. Wilson -- Island biogeography theory : reticulations and reintegration of "a biogeography of the species" / Mark V. Lomolino, James H. Brown, and Dov. F. Sax -- The MacArthur-Wilson equilibrium model : a chronicle of what it said and how it was tested / Thomas W. Schoener -- A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography : extending the MacArthur-Wilson theory to accommodate the rise and fall of volcanic islands / Robert J. Whittaker, Kostas A. Triantis, and Richard J. Ladle -- The trophic cascade on islands / John Terborgh -- Toward a trophic island biogeography : reflections on the interface of island biogeography and food web ecology / Robert D. Holt -- The theories of island biogeography and metapopulation dynamics : science marches forward, but the legacy of good ideas lasts for a long time / Ilkka Hanski -- Beyond island biogeography theory : understanding habitat fragmentation in the real world / William F. Laurance -- Birds of the Solomon Islands : the domain of the dynamic equilibrium theory and assembly rules, with comments on the taxon cycle / Daniel Simberloff and Michael D. Collins -- Neutral theory and the theory of island biogeography / Stephen P. Hubbell -- Evolutionary changes following island colonization in birds : empirical insights into the roles of microevolutionary processes / Sonya Clegg -- Sympatric speciation, immigration, and hybridization in island birds / Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant -- Island biogeography of remote archipelagoes : interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes / Rosemary G. Gillespie and Bruce G. Baldwin -- Dynamics of colonization and extinction on islands insights from Lesser Antillean birds / Robert E. Ricklefs -- The speciation-area relationship / Jonathan B. Losos and Christina E. Parent -- Ecological and genetic models of diversity : lessons across disciplines / Mark Vellend and John L. Orrock.