Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities Paperback - 2001
by McKinney, Michael L. & Drake,James A. Eds.)
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Details
- Title Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities
- Author McKinney, Michael L. & Drake,James A. Eds.)
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 552
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia Univ Press, New York
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 009384
- ISBN 9780231104159 / 0231104154
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 1390
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Themes
- Topical: Ecology
- Dewey Decimal Code 577.88
From the rear cover
The contributors to Biodiversity Dynamics bring together the cutting-edge findings of a number of different fields that have traditionally had little crossover: data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology are all presented. Editor Michael L. McKinney begins the book with an overview of the concept of biodiversity dynamics, explaining why turnover needs to be addressed in terms of all scales of time and space and why it is so important to look at speciation and extinction together, as interdependent processes.
Biodiversity Dynamics is divided into two parts, the first exploring turnover at the species level and the second investigating larger-scale community and ecosystem turnover. Contributors in part 1 write on such topics as the relationship of geographic range to diversification and extinction rates, the phylogenetic constraints on evolution of various traits, and the evolution of complexity. Part 2 focuses on such subjects as how fine- and coarse-scale observation of ecosystems often yield widely disparate results, the question of diversity equilibrium over the ages, and how evolutionary turnover is crucial to understanding the origins of biodiversity.
Where paleontologists and ecologists have long had divergent perspectives, Biodiversity Dynamics seeks a middle ground, finding ways for both scientific communities to work together to comprehend the great biodiversity of the earth and how to preserve it for futuregenerations.