Everything you need to understand or teach The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen.
The Song of the Dodo is David Quammen's journalistic account of the development of the branch of ecology called island biogeography and an examination of how its theories might be applied to modern conservation efforts. Part scientific explanation and part travelogue, Quammen escorts his readers through the sometimes bitter infighting among ecologists and takes them island hopping around the globe to look at real cases of ecosystem decay.
Island biogeography is...
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions Lesson Plans contain 128 pages of teaching material, including: