The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32) / / Stephen P. Hubbell.
Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
32 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 123 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. MacArthur and Wilson's Radical Theory
- 2. On Current Theories of Relative Species Abundance
- 3. Dynamical Models of the Relative Abundance of Species
- 4. Local Community Dynamics under Ecological Drift
- 5. Metacommunity Dynamics and the Unified Theory
- 6. The Unified Theory and Dynamical Species-Area Relationships
- 7. Metapopulations and Biodiversity on the Metacommunity Landscape
- 8. Speciation, Phylogeny, and the Evolution of Metacommunity Biodiversity
- 9. Sampling, Parameter Estimation, and the Generality of the Unified Theory
- 10. Reconciling Dispersal-Assembly and Niche-Assembly Theories
- Literature Cited
- Index