num_pages: 704
description: Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
language: English
title: Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
titlecomplete: Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
genres: Nature, History, Evolution, Biology, Environment, Science, Animals, Nonfiction, Natural History, Ecology
ratings_count: 8198
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: John Burroughs Medal, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Helen Bernstein Book Award
category: Excellence in Journalism, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: BP Natural World Book Award
publisher: Pimlico