... ofspecies we see on an island, and how does thisnumber depend on the size and isolation of theisland? Gilbert White’s question of populationabundance was revisited and expanded beyondthe sterile ... the concept of a populationitself. And there are many important relatedabstractions, like the mainland/island concept ofisland biogeography (Macarthur and Wilson,1967), which can be viewed ... these are known asweak homogenous mixing (Anderson and May,1991) and assume, for example, that all patches areroughly equivalent in their colonization and extinction properties. A particularly...