Speciation and Patterns of Diversity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Butlin, Roger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together the viewpoints of leading ecologists concerned with the processes that generate patterns of diversity, and evolutionary biologists who focus on mechanisms of speciation, this book opens up discussion in order to broaden understanding of how speciation affects patterns of biological diversity, especially the uneven distribution of diversity across time, space and taxa studied by macroecologists. The contributors discuss questions such as: Are species equivalent units, providing meaningful measures of diversity? To what extent do mechanisms of speciation affect the functional nature and distribution of species diversity? How can speciation rates be measured using molecular phylogenies or data from the fossil record? What are the factors that explain variation in rates? Written for graduate students and academic researchers, the book promotes a more complete understanding of the interaction between mechanisms and rates of speciation and these patterns in biological diversity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511738227
• Artikelnr.: 52965058

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Speciation and patterns of diversity Roger K. Butlin, Jon
R. Bridle and Dolph Schluter; 2. On the arbitrary identification of real
species Jody Hey; 3. The evolutionary nature of diversification in sexuals
and asexuals Timothy G. Barraclough, Diego Fontaneto, Elisabeth A. Herniou
and Claudia Ricci; 4. The poverty of the protists Graham Bell; 5. Theory,
community assembly, diversity and evolution in the microbial world Thomas
P. Curtis, Nigel C. Wallbridge and William T. Sloan; 6. Patterns of
biodiversity and limits to adaptation in time and space Jon R. Bridle,
Jitka Polechova and Timothy H. Vines; 7. Dynamic patterns of adaptive
radiation: evolution of mating preferences Sergey Gavrilets and Aaron Vose;
8. Niche dimensionality and ecological speciation Patrik Nosil and Luke
Harmon; 9. Progressive levels of trait divergence along a 'speciation
transect' in the Lake Victoria cichlid fish Pundamilia Ole Seehausen; 10.
Rapid speciation, hybridization and adaptive radiation in the Heliconius
melpomene group James Mallet; 11. Investigating ecological speciation
Daniel J. Funk; 12. Biotic interactions and speciation in the tropics
Douglas W. Schemske; 13. Ecological influences on the temporal pattern of
speciation Albert B. Phillimore and Trevor D. Price; 14. Speciation,
extinction, and diversity Robert E. Ricklefs; 15. Temporal patterns in
diversification rates Andy Purvis, C. David L. Orme, Nicola H. Toomey and
Paul N. Pearson; 16. Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of
North American mammals John Alroy.