M. Blackburn / J. Gaston (eds.)

Macroecology

Concepts and Consequences: The 43rd Annual Symposium of the British Ecological Society Held at the University of Birmingham
Herausgeber: Blackburn, Tim M.; Gaston, Kevin J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Major researchers in the field present overviews of current thinking about the form and determinants of macroecological patterns. Each section presents different viewpoints on the answer to a key question in macroecology: Why are most species rare and small-bodied, and restricted in their distribution?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521549325
• ISBN-10: 0521549329
• Artikelnr.: 21330726

Autorenporträt

Dr Blackburn''s research at the University of Birmingham is concerned with a broad range of large-scale patterns and processes in ecology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: why Macroecology? Tim M. Blackburn and Kevin J. Gaston;
Part I. Why Are Some Taxa More Diverse Than Others?: 2. Evolutionary
analysis of species richness patterns in aquatic beetles: why macroecology
needs a historical perspective Alfried P. Vogler and Ignacio Ribera; 3. The
unified phenomenological theory of biodiversity Sean Nee; Part II. Why Are
Most Species Rare?: 4. The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography,
and beyond Stephen P. Hubbell and Jeffrey Lake; 5. Breaking the stick in
space: of niche models, metacommunities and patterns in the relative
abundance of species Pablo A. Marquet, Juan E. Keymer and Hernán Cofré;
Part III. Why Are There More Species in the Tropics?: 6. How to reject the
area hypothesis of latitudinal gradients Michael L. Rosenzweig; 7.
Climatic-energetic explanations of diversity: a macroscopic perspective
Robert J. Whittaker, Katherine J. Willis and Richard Field; 8. The
importance of historical processes in global patterns of diversity Andrew
Clarke and J. Alistair Crame; Part IV. Why are More Species Small-Bodied?:
9. Why are most species small-bodied? A phylogenetic view Andy Purvis, C.
David L. Orme and Konrad Dolphin; 10. Adaptive diversification of body
size: the roles of physical constraint, energetics and natural selection
Brian A. Maurer; Part V. Why are some species more likely to go extinct?:
11. Life histories and extinction risk John D. Reynolds; 12. Routes to
extinction Bernt-Erik Sæther and Steinar Engen; Part VI. Why Aren't Species
More Widely Distributed?: 13. Why aren't species more widely distributed?
Physiological and environmental limits F. Ian Woodward and C. K. Kelly; 14.
Macroecology and microecology: linking large-scale patterns of abundance to
population processes Andrew R. Watkinson, Jennifer A. Gill and Robert P.
Freckleton; 15. Genetics and the boundaries of species' distributions R. K.
Butlin, J. R. Bridle and M. Kawata; Part VII. Why Are There Interspecific
Allometries?: 16. Intraspecific body size optimisation produces
interspecific allometries J. Kozowski, M. Konarzewski and A. T. Gawelczyk;
17. Scaling the macroecological, and evolutionary implications of size and
metabolism within and across plant taxa Brian J. Enquist; Part VIII. Why is
Macroecology Important?: 18. Macroecology and conservation biology Kevin J.
Gaston and Tim M. Blackburn; 19. Evolutionary macroecology and the fossil
record David Jablonski, Kaustuv Roy and James W. Valentine; 20. Comparative
methods for adaptive radiations Robert P. Freckleton, M. Pagel and Paul H.
Harvey; 21. The next step in macroecology: from general empirical patterns
to universal ecological laws James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, Geoffrey B.
West and Van M. Savage.