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Only a limited number of species can co-exist successfully on an island. The available niches are filled, as we have seen in Chapter 3, by a continuous turnover of species derived from an adjoining mainland or from some other island.
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Gorman, M.L. (1979). The very remote islands. In: Island Ecology. Outline Studies in Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5800-5_5
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