Island biogeography theory predicts that the number of species on an island should increase with island size and decrease with island distance to the mainland. These predictions are generally well supported in comparative and experimental studies. These ecological, equilibrium predictions arise as a result of colonization and extinction processes. Because colonization and extinction are also im...

Biogeography Based Optimization (BBO) is a swarm based optimization algorithm that has shown impressive performance over other Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). Immigration Refusal Biogeography Based Optimization (IRBBO), Enhanced Biogeography Based Optimization (EBBO), Blended Migration are the most improved version of BBO and are known as migration variants of BBO. In this paper, a new concept o...

Philosophers of science have examined The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson (1967) mainly due to its important contribution to modeling in ecology, but they have not examined it as a representative case of ecological explanation. In this paper, I scrutinize the type of explanation used in this paradigmatic work of ecology. I describe the philosophy of science of...

This paper is an analytical study of the performance governing factors of the biogeography based land cover feature extraction technique which is characterized by its ability to perform differently on different natural terrain features contained in a satellite image. From the discussion, we establish the fact that the classification efficiency of BBO for a given land cover feature is inversely ...

Trut LN. 1999. Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment. American Scientist 87:160-169. Summary. In 1959, the Russian geneticist Dmitry K. Belyaev began studying the behavior of captive foxes at a fur farm. Interested in the process of domestication, he experimentally selected foxes on the basis of their reaction to humans. Individual foxes that responded with fear were removed from t...

This issue marks the onset of the fifth decade of the Journal of Biogeography. The first issue was published in March 1974 under the editorship of David Watts, with John Flenley and Daniel Simberloff acting as associate editors. The journal was then a slim, sub-A4-sized publication appearing in four issues a year and including an eclectic mix of papers from study systems around the globe and fe...