Work on evolution on islands has a long established biogeographical pedigree stretching back to the work of darwinand wallace and generating ideas theories and models that have played a central. Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments due to their isolation from more widespread continental species islands are ideal places for unique species to evolve but they are also places of concentrated extinction not surprisingly they are widely studied by ecologists conservationists . Island biogeography ecology evolution and conservation feb 26 2021 the evolutionary and ecological theories of island biogeography have developed along very different lines and there has been considerable. Theoretical bases of island biogeography and ecology including the development of the equilibrium theory of island biogeography and community dynamics are accounted through the next three chapters evolutionary processes in the island biogeography are then described in the second part of the book chapters 7 to 9