Anderson / Peterson / Martínez-Meyer Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4067-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 49, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Monographs in Population Biology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Robert P.

Peterson, A. Townsend

Martínez-Meyer, Enrique

Soberón, Jorge

Nakamura, Miguel

Pearson, Richard G.

Araújo, Miguel B.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Table of Contents, pg. v
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Chapter One. Introduction, pg. 1
Chapter Two. Concepts Of Niches, pg. 7
Chapter Three. Niches And Geographic Distributions, pg. 23
Chapter Four. Niches And Distributions In Practice: Overview, pg. 51
Chapter Five. Species’ Occurrence Data, pg. 62
Chapter Six. Environmental Data, pg. 82
Chapter Seven. Modeling Ecological Niches, pg. 97
Chapter Eight. From Niches To Distributions, pg. 138
Chapter Nine. Evaluating Model Performance And Signifi Cance, pg. 150
Chapter Ten. Introduction To Applications, pg. 185
Chapter Eleven. Discovering Biodiversity, pg. 189
Chapter Twelve. Conservation Planning And Climate Change Effects, pg. 200
Chapter Thirteen. Species’ Invasions, pg. 215
Chapter Fourteen. The Geography Of Disease Transmission, pg. 226
Chapter Fifteen. Linking Niches With Evolutionary Processes, pg. 238
Appendix A. Glossary Of Symbols Used, pg. 261
Appendix B. Set Theory For G- And E-Space, pg. 266
Glossary, pg. 269
Bibliography, pg. 281

Über Autor(innen)

A. Townsend Peterson and Jorge Soberón are professors of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Richard G. Pearson is a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History. Robert P. Anderson is associate professor of biology at the City College of New York, CUNY. Enrique Martínez-Meyer is professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Miguel Nakamura is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas in Guanajuato, Mexico. Miguel B. Araújo is a senior researcher at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, and at the Universidade de Évora, Portugal.