Biodiversity Dynamics : Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities / Michael McKinney, James Drake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drake, James, editor.

McKinney, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system impact on biodiversity loss over the long term--not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale be dealt with by earth scientists? This volume brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology to answer this question.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / McKinney, Michael L.

1. Biodiversity Dynamics: Niche Preemption and Saturation in Diversity Equilibria / McKinney, Michael L.

Part One. Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations Through Higher Taxa

2. Do Taxa Persist as Metapopulations in Evolutionary Time? / Harrison, Susan

3. Geographic Range Fragmentation and the Evolution of Biological Diversity / Maurer, Brian A. / Nott, M. Philip

4. Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies / Gittleman, J. L. / Anderson, C. G. / Cates, S. E. / Luh, H.-K. / Smith, J. D.

5. Testing Models of Speciation and Extinction with Phylogenetic Trees of Extant Taxa / Hey, Jody / Hilton, Holly / Leahy, Nicholas / Wang, Rong-Lin

6. Dynamics of Diversification in State Space / McShea, Daniel W.

7. Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas / Kelt, Douglas A. / Brown, James H.

8. The Role of Development in Evolutionary Radiations / Eble, Gunther J.

9. Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa / Gilinsky, Norman L. / Gilinsky, Norman L.

Part Two. Community Turnover: From Populations Through Global Diversity

10. Scaling the Ecosystem: A Hierarchical View of Stasis and Change / Schopf, Kenneth M. / Ivany, Linda C.

11. Nested Patterns of Species Distribution: Processes and Implications / Cutler, Alan H.

12. Equilibrial Diversity Dynamics in North American Mammals / Alroy, John

13. Scales of Diversification and the Ordovician Radiation / Miller, Arnold I. / Mao, Shuguang

14. Preston's Ergodic Conjecture: The Accumulation of Species in Space and Time / Rosenzweig, Michael L.

15. An Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis of Maximal Speciation / Allmon, Warren D. / Morris, Paul J. / McKinney, Michael L.

16. Turnover Dynamics Across Ecological and Geological Scales / Russell, Gareth J.

17. Catastrophic Fluctuations in Nutrient Levels as an Agent of Mass Extinction: Upward Scaling of Ecological Processes? / Martin, Ronald E.

18. Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics / Aronson, Richard B. / Plotnick, Roy E.

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9780231505802

0231505809

OCLC:

979775866