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Coexistence : the ecology and evolution of tropical biodiversity / Jan Sapp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sapp, Jan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
- Biodiversity--Tropics.
- Biodiversity.
- Ecology--Tropics.
- Ecology.
- Research.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Tropics.
- Evolution (Biology)--Tropics.
- Tropics--Research.
- Rain forest ecology.
- Coral reef ecology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Interviews
- 1. The other world
- 2. Legends
- 3. Romancing the rainforest
- 4. Regeneration
- 5. Is evolution different in the tropics?
- 6. Niche construction
- 7. Rhythms of the forest
- 8. On the waterfronts
- 9. The new deal
- 10. Ecology in disequilibrium
- 11. The central enigma
- 12. Liberated from fashionable science
- 13. Territories, taxonomy, and time
- 14. Nineteen eighty-nine
- 15. Biodiversity in heat
- 16. A continent in the canopy
- 17. At the root of diversity
- 18. The other world today
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190632441
- 0190632445
- OCLC:
- 956501880
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