Biodiversity and biogeographic patterns in Asia-Pacific region II : case studies / Youhua Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chen, Youhua (Biologist), author.

Series:

Environmental science, engineering and technology series.

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biodiversity--Asia.

Biodiversity.

Biodiversity--Pacific Area.

Biogeography--Asia.

Biogeography.

Biogeography--Pacific Area.

Biodiversity--Mathematical models.

Biogeography--Mathematical models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conservation biology has gradually become one of the mainstream fields in contemporary science. The importance of biodiversity conservation is apparently straightforward to understand: because of global urbanization, industrialization and climate change, people become more knowledgeable about the harmony between human beings, society and nature. Biodiversity science is a leading multidisciplinary science in the 21st century. In Asia, there are two BRIC countries: India and China. Both are giant and developing countries. The population sizes of both countries rank in the top two across the nati

Contents:

""BIODIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION II: CASE STUDIES""; ""BIODIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION II: CASE STUDIES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part 1: Biodiversity Patterns and Analyses in China""; ""Chapter 1: Latitudinal Patterns of Phylogenetic Community Structure of Endemic Birds and Mammals of China: Testing “out-of-Tropics� Hypothesis""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Materials and Methods""

""Construction of Phylogenetic Tree and Distribution of Endemic Birds in China""""Construction of Phylogenetic Tree and Distribution of Endemic Mammals in China""; ""Measurement of Phylogenetic Relatedness""; ""Fitting the Relationships between Phylogenetic Relatedness Indices and Latitude""; ""Results""; ""Discussion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Conflict of Interest""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: A Multiscale Spatial Analysis on the Distributional Concordance of Birds and Mammals on Hainan Island, China""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Materials and Methods""; ""Basic Mantel Statistic""

""Mantel Correlogram""""Partial Mantel Correlogram""; ""Test of Significance""; ""A Test on the Distributional Concordance between Birds and Mammals on Hainan Island of China""; ""Results""; ""Richness of Mammals and Birds on Hainan Island""; ""Global Distributional Concordance between Birds and Mammals""; ""Multiscale Distributional Concordance Using Partial Mantel Correlogram""; ""Discussion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Conflict of Interest""; ""References""

""Chapter 3: Community Structure and Potential Distribution of Amphibian Taxa (Anura) in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China""""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Materials and Methods""; ""Data Set""; ""Species Co-Occurrence Analysis""; ""Self-Organizing Map""; ""Results and Discussion""; ""Species Co-Occurrence""; ""SOM Richness Prediction""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Conflict of Interest""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Quantifying Species� Fundamental Niche Using Different Multivariate Ordination Methods: Testing Phylogenetic Signals and Inferring Evolutionary Models""; ""Abstract""

""Introduction""""Materials and Methods""; ""Measurement of Fundamental Niches""; ""Quantifying Fundamental Niches in Multidimensional Spaces""; ""(1) Originality of Habitat Diversity""; ""(2) Uniqueness of Habitat Diversity""; ""Prediction of Species� Fundamental Niche Using Ecological Niche Modeling""; ""Phylogenetic Signal of Species Fundamental Niches""; ""Datasets""; ""Distribution of Tree Species in North America""; ""Distribution of Endemic Reptiles in China""; ""Modeling of Species� Fundamental Niches""; ""Phylogenetic Construction""; ""Results""

""Comparison of Alternative Multivariate Methods for Measuring Originality and Uniqueness of Habitat Diversity for Endemic Reptiles of China""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63463-338-5

OCLC:

898893128