Peter R. Grant (ed.)

Evolution on Islands

Originating from Contributions to a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society of London
Herausgeber: Grant, Peter; Grant, Peter R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The study of patterns and processes of evolution on islands has played an important role in the development of general theories of how and why evolution occurs. Isolated from the continental process of gene flow, islands may display remarkable rapidity of diversifying evolution, as well as unique species. Evolution on Islands surveys our current knowledge and understanding of microevolution, speciation, and adaptive radiation on islands. Chapters written by experts in the field cover the major trends and processes displayed by plants and animals, on tropical and temperate zone islands, and in lakes and tropical forest refugia. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to all students and researchers working in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780198501718
• ISBN-10: 0198501714
• Artikelnr.: 21225983

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Grant: Patterns on islands and microevolution
* 2: Barrett: The reproductive biology and genetics of island plants
* 3: Berry: Evolution of small mammals
* 4: Pemberton et al: The maintenance of genetic polymorphism in small
island populations: large mammals in the Hebrides
* 5: Thorpe, Malhotra: Molecular and morphological evolution within
small islands
* 6: Grant: Speciation
* 7: Barton: Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of
evolution on islands
* 8: Hollocher: Island hopping in Drosophila: genetic patterns and
speciation mechanisms
* 9: Grant, Grant: Speciation and hybridization of birds on islands
* 10: Schluter: Ecological speciation in postglacial fishes
* 11: Clarke et al: How `molecular leakage' can mislead us about island
speciation
* 12: Grant: Radiations, communities and biogeography
* 13: Losos: Ecological and evolutionary determinants of the
species-area relation in Caribbean anoline lizards
* 14: Rüber et al: Lake level fluctuations and speciation in rock
dwelling cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
* 15: Prance: Islands in Amazonia
* 16: Mallet, Turner: Biotic drift or the shifting balance - did forest
islands drive the diversity of warningly coloured butterflies?
* 17: Givnish: Adaptive plant evolution on islands : classical
patterns, molecular data, new insights
* 18: Grant: Epilogue and questions