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Sweden, being part of the Scandinavian peninsula, is a country with a very long coastline and greatly influenced by its closeness to the sea. Both the Swedish and Finnish coasts along the brackish Baltic Sea and the west coast of Sweden along the Skagerak are rich in islands. This has directed much attention among Swedish and Finnish naturalists to the ecology of island life. Theories of species richness on islands, along the same lines of thinking as MacArthur and Wilson (1963, 1967) and others during the 1960s, were published as early as 1917 by Alvar Palmgren and 1921 by Olof Arrhenius.
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Ås, S., Bengtsson, J., Ebenhard, T. (1992). Archipelagoes and Theories of Insularity. In: Hansson, L. (eds) Ecological Principles of Nature Conservation. Conservation Ecology Series: Principles, Practices and Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3524-9_6
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