Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49) / / A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Richard G. Pearson, Miguel B. Araújo, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura, Robert P. Anderson.

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• VerfasserIn: Peterson, A. Townsend,; Araújo, Miguel B.,; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique,; Nakamura, Miguel,; Pearson, Richard G.,; Soberón, Jorge,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Population Biology ; 49
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 51 line illus. 4 tables.

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative vi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One. Introduction
• Part I. Theory
• Chapter Two. Concepts Of Niches
• Chapter Three. Niches And Geographic Distributions
• Part II. Practice
• Chapter Four. Niches And Distributions In Practice: Overview
• Chapter Five. Species' Occurrence Data
• Chapter Six. Environmental Data
• Chapter Seven. Modeling Ecological Niches
• Chapter Eight. From Niches To Distributions
• Chapter Nine. Evaluating Model Performance And Signifi Cance
• Part III. Applications
• Chapter Ten. Introduction To Applications
• Chapter Eleven. Discovering Biodiversity
• Chapter Twelve. Conservation Planning And Climate Change Effects
• Chapter Thirteen. Species' Invasions
• Chapter Fourteen. The Geography Of Disease Transmission
• Chapter Fifteen. Linking Niches With Evolutionary Processes
• Appendices
• Appendix A. Glossary Of Symbols Used
• Appendix B. Set Theory For G- And E-Space
• Glossary
• Bibliography