Research Catalog

Title

Biodiversity dynamics : turnover of populations, taxa, and communities / Michael L. McKinney and James A. Drake, editors.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• McKinney, Michael L.
• Drake, James A., 1954-

Description

xx, 528 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's ecosystem impact biodiversity loss over the long term - not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale dealt with by earth scientists?" "The contributors to Biodiversity Dynamics bring together the cutting-edge findings of a number of different fields that have traditionally had little crossover: data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology are all presented.".
• "Where paleontologists and ecologists have long had divergent perspectives, Biodiversity Dynamics seeks a middle ground, finding ways for both scientific communities to work together to comprehend the great biodiversity of the earth and how to preserve it for future generations."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Biodiversity
• Evolution (Biology)
• Population biology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-522) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Michael L. McKinney. 1. Biodiversity Dynamics Niche Preemption and Saturation in Diversity Equilibria / Michael L. McKinney -- Pt. 1. Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations Through Higher Taxa. 2. Do Taxa Persist as Metapopulations in Evolutionary Time? / Susan Harrison. 3. Geographic Range Fragmentation and the Evolution of Biological Diversity / Brian A. Maurer and M. Philip Nott. 4. Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies / J. L. Gittleman, C. G. Anderson and S. E. Cates. 5. Testing Models of Speciation and Extinction with Phylogenetic Trees of Extant Taxa / Jody Hey, Holly Hilton and Nicholas Leahy. 6. Dynamics of Diversification in State Space / Daniel W. McShea. 7. Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas / Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown. 8. The Role of Development in Evolutionary Radiations / Gunther J. Eble. 9. Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa / Norman L. Gilinski --
• Pt. 2. Community Turnover: From Populations Through Global Diversity. 10. Scaling the Ecosystem: A Hierarchical View of Stasis and Change / Kenneth M. Schopf and Linda C. Ivany. 11. Nested Patterns of Species Distribution: Processes and Implications / Alan H. Cutler. 12. Equilibrial Diversity Dynamics in North American Mammals / John Alroy. 13. Scales of Diversification and the Ordovician Radiation / Arnold I. Miller and Shuguang Mao. 14. Preston's Ergodic Conjecture: The Accumulation of Species in Space and Time / Michael L. Rosenzweig. 15. An Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis of Maximal Speciation / Warren D. Allmon, Paul J. Morris and Michael L. McKinney. 16. Turnover Dynamics Across Ecological and Geological Scales / Gareth J. Russell. 17. Catastrophic Fluctuations in Nutrient Levels as an Agent of Mass Extinction: Upward Scaling of Ecological Processes? / Ronald E. Martin.
• 18. Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics / Richard B. Aronson and Roy E. Plotnick.

ISBN

0231104146 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98017973

OCLC

• ocm38842213
• SCSB-4123737

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries