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Title

Species diversity in ecological communities : historical and geographical perspectives / edited by Robert E. Ricklefs and Dolph Schluter.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1993.

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• Ricklefs, Robert E.
• Schluter, Dolph

Description

414 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

A pioneering work, "Species Diversity in Ecological Communities" looks at biodiversity in its broadest geographical and historical contexts. For many decades, ecologists have studied only small areas over short time spans in the belief that diversity is regulated by local ecological interactions. However, to understand fully how communities come to have the diversity they do, and to properly address urgent conservation problems, scientists must consider global patterns of species richness and the historical events that shape both regional and local communities. The authors use new theoretical developments, analyses, and case studies to explore the large-scale mechanisms that generate and maintain diversity. Case studies of various regions and organisms consider how local and regional processes interact to determine patterns of species richness. The contributors emphasize the fact that ecological processes acting quickly on a local scale do not erase the effects of regional and historical events that occur more slowly and less frequently. This book compels scientists to rethink the foundations of community ecology and sets the stage for further research using comparative, experimental, geographical, and historical data. Published: July 2014.

Subject

• Species diversity
• Biotic communities
• Biogeography
• species diversity
• biodiversity
• community ecology
• ecology
• Diversité des espèces
• Écosystèmes
• Biocénoses
• Biogéographie
• Biodiversiteit
• Biogeografie
• Artenreichtum
• Ökosystem
• Biogéographie
• Biocénoses
• Biodiversité
• Écosystèmes
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Ecosystem
• Ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-404) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 10. Three Explanations of the Positive Relationship between Distribution and Abundance of Species / Ilkka Hanski, Jari Kouki and Antti Halkka -- 11. Experimental Biogeography: Interactions between Stochastic, Historical, and Ecological Processes in a Model Archipelago / Daniel Haydon, Ray R. Radtkey and Eric R. Pianka -- 12. Space, Time, and Man as Determinants of Diversity of Birds and Mammals in the Mediterranean Region / Jacques Blondel and Jean-Denis Vigne -- 13. Bird Diversity Components within and between Habitats in Australia / Martin L. Cody -- 14. Determinants of Diversity in Animal Communities of Arid Australia / Stephen R. Morton -- 15. Biodiversity in Australia Compared with Other Continents / Mark Westoby -- 16. Patterns of Diversity for the Insect Herbivores on Bracken / John H. Lawton, Thomas M. Lewinsohn and Stephen G. Compton -- 17. Community Richness in Parasites of Some Freshwater Fishes from North America / John M. Aho and Albert O. Bush.
• 18. Evidence for the Influence of Historical Processes in Co-occurrence and Diversity of Tiger Beetle Species / David L. Pearson and Steven A. Juliano -- 19. Pelagic Diversity Patterns / John A. McGowan and Patricia W. Walker -- 20. Global Patterns of Diversity in Mangrove Floras / Robert E. Ricklefs and Roger Earl Latham -- 21. Convergence and the Regional Component of Species Diversity / Dolph Schluter and Robert E. Ricklefs -- 22. Unsaturated Patterns in Species Assemblages: The Role of Regional Processes in Setting Local Species Richness / Howard V. Cornell -- 23. Phylogenetic Determinants of Insect/Plant Community Diversity / Brian D. Farrell and Charles Mitter -- 24. Historical Ecology: Examining Phylogenetic Components of Community Evolution / Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A. McLennan -- 25. Phylogenetic Patterns, Biogeography, and the Ecological Structure of Neotropical Snake Assemblages / John E. Cadle and Harry W. Greene.
• 26. Continental Comparisons of Temperate-Zone Tree Species Diversity / Roger Earl Latham and Robert E. Ricklefs -- 27. The Phanerozoic Evolution of Reef Diversity / Erle G. Kauffman and J.A. Fagerstrom -- 28. Historical Diversity Patterns in North American Large Herbivores and Carnivores / Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Christine M. Janis -- 29. Fossil Communities: Compositional Variation at Many Time Scales / James W. Valentine and David Jablonski -- 30. Species Diversity: Regional and Historical Influences / Robert E. Ricklefs and Dolph Schluter.

ISBN

• 0226718220
• 9780226718224
• 0226718239
• 9780226718231

LCCN

93016747

OCLC

• 27813343
• SCSB-10196015

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Harvard Library