Michael L. Rosenzweig, Rosenzweig Michael L.

Species Diversity in Space and Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lively account of the big questions about biodiversity being posed by ecologists today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780521499521
• ISBN-10: 0521499526
• Artikelnr.: 21813309

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The road ahead
2. Patterns in space
3. Temporal patterns
4. Dimensionless patterns
5. Speciation
6. Extinction
7. Evolution of the relationship between habitat diversity and species diversity
8. Species-area curves in ecological time
9. Species-area curves in evolutionary time
10. Paleobiological patterns
11. Other patterns with dynamic roots
12. Energy flow and diversity
13. A hierarchical dynamic puzzle
References
Index.