UID:
almafu_9959237694802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 333 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-511-73822-6
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1-107-20014-8
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1-282-53915-9
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9786612539152
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0-511-81568-9
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0-511-71881-0
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0-511-71926-4
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0-511-51497-2
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0-511-71835-7
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0-511-51625-8
Serie:
Ecological reviews
Inhalt:
Bringing together the viewpoints of leading ecologists concerned with the processes that generate patterns of diversity, and evolutionary biologists who focus on mechanisms of speciation, this book opens up discussion in order to broaden understanding of how speciation affects patterns of biological diversity, especially the uneven distribution of diversity across time, space and taxa studied by macroecologists. The contributors discuss questions such as: Are species equivalent units, providing meaningful measures of diversity? To what extent do mechanisms of speciation affect the functional nature and distribution of species diversity? How can speciation rates be measured using molecular phylogenies or data from the fossil record? What are the factors that explain variation in rates? Written for graduate students and academic researchers, the book promotes a more complete understanding of the interaction between mechanisms and rates of speciation and these patterns in biological diversity.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE Speciation and patterns of biodiversity; CHAPTER TWO On the arbitrary identification of real species; CHAPTER THREE The evolutionary nature of diversification in sexuals and asexuals; CHAPTER FOUR The poverty of the protists; CHAPTER FIVE Theory, community assembly, diversity and evolution in the microbial world; CHAPTER SIX Limits to adaptation and patterns of biodiversity; CHAPTER SEVEN Dynamic patterns of adaptive radiation: evolution of mating preferences
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CHAPTER EIGHT Niche dimensionality and ecological speciationCHAPTER NINE Progressive levels of trait divergence along a 'speciation transect' in the Lake Victoria cichlid fish Pundamilia; CHAPTER TEN Rapid speciation, hybridization and adaptive radiation in the Heliconius melpomene group; CHAPTER ELEVEN Investigating ecological speciation; CHAPTER TWELVE Biotic interactions and speciation in the tropics; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Ecological influences on the temporal pattern of speciation; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Speciation, extinction and diversity; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Temporal patterns in diversification rates
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammalsIndex
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-70963-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-88318-0
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815683
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