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Insular Biogeography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_biogeography) summary of biogeography
The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert H. MacArthur & Edward O. Wilson http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7051.html classic textbook
Meyer, C. et al., 2015. Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions. Nat Comms, 6, p.8221. Available via doi:10.1038/ncomms9221 or Direct Link. discusses data completeness
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, http://gbif.org) large repository of biodiversity data
Matthews, T.J. et al., 2014. Thresholds and the species-area relationship: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets K. C. Burns, ed. J. Biogeogr., 41(5), pp.1018–1028. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12286. example of using species diversity - area relationships. As far as I can tell Whittaker is a bit of an authority in the field of (habitat) island biogeography
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