Research Catalog

Title

Aspects of the genesis and maintenance of biological diversity / edited by Michael E. Hochberg, Jean Clobert, and Robert Barbault.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Hochberg, Michael E.
• Clobert, Jean.
• Barbault, R.

Description

xi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Biodiversity
• Evolution (Biology)
• Ecology
• Biodiversity conservation

Note

• Based on contributions to a series of six workshops held at the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Robert M. May -- Pt. 1. Evolution: Patterns and Processes -- Overview / Sean Nee, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Godfrey Hewitt and Jean-Jacques Jaeger. 1. Diversity in the past: comparing cladistic phylogenies and stratigraphy / Michael J. Benton and Glenn W. Storrs. 2. What can phylogenetic patterns tell us about the evolutionary processes generating biodiversity? / Herve Philippe and Andre Adoutte. 3. New computer packages for analysing phylogenetic tree structure / Paul H. Harvey, Andrew Rambaut and Sean Nee. 4. Is it ancient or modern history that we can read in the genes? / Richard A. Nichols and Mark A. Beaumont. 5. Evolution of adaptive polymorphism in spatially heterogeneous environments / Thierry de Meeus and Francois Renaud -- Pt. 2. Ecology: From Populations to Communities to Ecosystems -- Overview / Jean Clobert, Chris Gliddon, Bradford A. Hawkins and Michael E. Hochberg. 6. Local diversity: a problem with too many solutions / Bryan Shorrocks.
• 7. The population dynamics of single host-multiparasitoid interactions / T. Hefin Jones and Michael P. Hassell. 8. Structural constraints on food web assembly / Philip H. Warren. 9. Trophic interactions, nutrient supply, and the structure of freshwater pelagic food webs / Gerard Lacroix, Francoise Lescher-Moutoue and Roger Pourriot. 10. Linking communities and ecosystems: trophic interactions as nutrient cycling pathways / James P. Grover and Michel Loreau -- Pt. 3. Large Scale Diversity Patterns and Conservation -- Overview / John H. Lawton, Robert Barbault, Claude Combes and Richard D. Gregory. 11. Does climate cause the global biodiversity gradient? / John R. G. Turner, Jack J. Lennon and Jeremy J. D. Greenwood. 12. Spatial covariance in the species richness of higher taxa / Kevin J. Gaston. 13. Biodiversity of parasites in relation to their life-cycles / Serge Morand. 14. Biodiversity value and taxonomic relatedness / Paul H. Williams.
• 15. Utilising genetic information in plant conservation programmes / Richard A. Ennos. 16. Essential ingredients of real metapopulations, exemplified by the butterfly Plebejus argus / Chris D. Thomas.

ISBN

0198548842

LCCN

95033374

OCLC

• 33014033
• ocm33014033

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Columbia University Libraries