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

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• MitwirkendeR: Allmon, Warren D.,; Alroy, John,; Anderson, C. G.,; Aronson, Richard B.,; Brown, James H.,; Cates, S. E.,; Cutler, Alan H.,; Eble, Gunther J.,; Gilinsky, Norman L.,; Gittleman, J. L.,; Harrison, Susan,; Hey, Jody,; Hilton, Holly,; Ivany, Linda C.,; Kelt, Douglas A.,; Leahy, Nicholas,; Luh, H.-K.,; Mao, Shuguang,; Martin, Ronald E.,; Maurer, Brian A.,; McKinney, Michael L.,; McShea, Daniel W.,; Miller, Arnold I.,; Morris, Paul J.,; Nott, M. Philip,; Plotnick, Roy E.,; Rosenzweig, Michael L.,; Russell, Gareth J.,; Schopf, Kenneth M.,; Smith, J. D.,; Wang, Rong-Lin,
• HerausgeberIn: Drake, James,; McKinney, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Biodiversity Dynamics: Niche Preemption and Saturation in Diversity Equilibria --; Part One. Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations Through Higher Taxa --; 2. Do Taxa Persist as Metapopulations in Evolutionary Time? --; 3. Geographic Range Fragmentation and the Evolution of Biological Diversity --; 4. Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies --; 5. Testing Models of Speciation and Extinction with Phylogenetic Trees of Extant Taxa --; 6. Dynamics of Diversification in State Space --; 7. Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas --; 8. The Role of Development in Evolutionary Radiations --; 9. Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa --; Part Two. Community Turnover: From Populations Through Global Diversity --; 10. Scaling the Ecosystem: A Hierarchical View of Stasis and Change --; 11. Nested Patterns of Species Distribution: Processes and Implications --; 12. Equilibrial Diversity Dynamics in North American Mammals --; 13. Scales of Diversification and the Ordovician Radiation --; 14. Preston’s Ergodic Conjecture: The Accumulation of Species in Space and Time --; 15. An Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis of Maximal Speciation --; 16. Turnover Dynamics Across Ecological and Geological Scales --; 17. Catastrophic Fluctuations in Nutrient Levels as an Agent of Mass Extinction: Upward Scaling of Ecological Processes? --; 18. Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231505802; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/mcki10414
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by James Drake, Michael McKinney.

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.