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NOVA Online | Garden of Eden | Why Do Islands Breed Giants? (1111 words) |
 | Islands, he argued, contain fewer species than mainlands and thus fewer numbers of both predators and competitors that might face a newcomer. |
| Foster's modest paper represented, as David Quammen puts it in his book The Song of the Dodo, "a sort of prerevolutionary innocence, standing on the distant side of a major upheaval." That upheaval was the 1967 publication of The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson. |
| Most important, Case stressed glaring exceptions to the island rule: how the same lizard or rodent could be relatively large on some islands but not on others, and how one island may have gigantic forms of one type of lizard or rodent and dwarf races of another. |
| Champagne bubble bursts for Foster - World - smh.com.au (1642 words) |
| Last week Foster was suddenly and uncharacteristically nowhere, as police and immigration officials continued to search for him around Nadi and in the nearby Yasawa Island chain, where they suspect he is hiding out. |
| Foster wanted to lease both the 93 hectares promised to Williams and another patch of land that includes the northern half of Champagne Beach, he said. |
| Mobile phone reception is almost non-existent in the islands, meaning Foster would be unable to make his habitual daily phone call to his mother, who is said to have returned to Australia after defending him in a statement to media 10 days ago. |
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