McKinney / Drake Biodiversity Dynamics

Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-50580-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

McKinney, Michael

Drake, James

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Michael McKinney
List of Contributors
1. Biodiversity dynamics: Niche preemption and saturation in diversity equilibria, by Michael McKinney
Part I. Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations Through Higher Taxa
2. Do taxa persist as metapopulations in evolutionary time?, by Susan Harrison
3. Geographic range fragmentation and the evolution of biological diversity, by Brian Maurer and Phillip Nott
4. Detecting ecological pattern in phylogenies, by John Gittleman, C. Anderson, S. Cates, H-K Luh, H. Hilton, N. Leahy, R-L Wan
5. Testing models of speciation and extinction with phylogenetic trees of extant taxa, by Jody Hey, Holly Hinton, Nicholas Leahy, Rong-Lin Wang
6. Dynamics of diversification in state space, by Daniel W. McShea
7. Diversification of body sizes: patterns and processes in the assembly of terrestrial mammal faunas, by Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown
8. The role of development in evolutionary radiations, by Gunther J. Eble
9. Declining taxonomic turnover in geologic time, by Norman Gilinsky
Part II. Community Turnover: From Populations Through Global Diversity
10. Scaling the ecosystem: A hierarchical view of stasis and change, by Kenneth M. Schopf and Linda C. Ivany
11. Nested patterns of species distribution: processes and implications, by Alan Cutler
12. Diversification of North American mammals: a test of equilibrial dynamics, by John Alroy
13. Scales of diversification and the Ordovician radiation, by Arnold I. Miller and Shuguang Mao
14. Preston's ergodic conjecture: the accumulation of species in space and time, by Michael L. Rosenweig
15. An intermediate disturbance hypothesis of maximal speciation, by Warren Allmon, Paul Morris, Michael McKinney
16. Turnover dynamics across ecological and geological scales, by Gareth Russell
17. Catastrophic fluctuations in nutrient levels as an agent of mass extinction: upward scaling of ecological processes?, by Ronald E. Martin
18. Scale-independent interpretations of macroevolutionary dynamics, by Richard B. Aronson and Roy E. Plotnick
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael L. McKinney is professor of geology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

James A. Drake is an associate professor in the Department of Zoology and the Graduate Ecology Program at the University of Tennessee.