Biodiversity Dynamics - Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities (Hardcover, New)

How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system impact on biodiversity loss over the long term - not in the next ten or even 50 years, but on the vast temporal scale dealt with by earth scientist?;This text brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology and paleontology. It starts with an overview of the concept of biodiversity dynamics, explaining why turnover needs to be addressed in terms of scales of time and space and why it is so important to look at speciation and extinction together, as independent processes.;This work is divided into two parts, the first exploring turnover at the species level and the second investigating larger-scale community and ecosystem turnover. Part one has 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. In part two, papers focus on subjects such as how fine and course-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

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1998
First published:	November 1998
Editors:	Michael L. McKinney • James A. Drake
Dimensions:	241 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	552
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-10414-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
LSN:	0-231-10414-6
Barcode:	9780231104142

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