Hubbell The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3752-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 32, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Monographs in Population Biology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hubbell, Stephen P.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1.MacArthur and Wilson's Radical Theory 3

2.On Current Theories of Relative Species Abundance 30

3.Dynamical Models of the Relative Abundance of Species 48

4.Local Community Dynamics under Ecological Drift 76

5.Metacommunity Dynamics and the Unified Theory 113

6.The Unified Theory and Dynamical Species-Area Relationships 152

7.Metapopulations and Biodiversity on the Metacommunity Landscape 202

8.Speciation, Phylogeny, and the Evolution of Metacommunity Biodiversity 231

9.Sampling, Parameter Estimation, and the Generality of the Unified Theory 281

10.Reconciling Dispersal-Assembly and Niche-Assembly Theories 319

Literature Cited 347

Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen P. Hubbell is Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia and Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He is the author of more than one hundred papers in tropical plant ecology, theoretical ecology, and plant-animal interactions. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Scholar Award in Conservation and the Environment. He is Chairman of the National Council for Science and the Environment (formerly the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment) and the inventor of Extinction: The Game of Ecology.