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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32).
Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: MacArthur and Wilson's Radical Theory; Chapter Two: On Current Theories of Relative Species Abundance; Chapter Three: Dynamical Models of the Relative Abundance of Species; Chapter Four: Local Community Dynamics under Ecological Drift; Chapter Five: Metacommunity Dynamics and the Unified Theory; Chapter Six: The Unified Neutral Theory and Dynamical Species-Area Relationships; Chapter Seven: Metapopulations and Biodiversity on the Metacommunity Landscape; Chapter Eight: Speciation, Phylogeny, and the Evolution of Metacommunity Biodiversity.
- Chapter Nine: Sampling, Parameter Estimation, and the Generality of the Unified TheoryChapter Ten: Reconciling Dispersal-Assembly and Niche-Assembly Theories; Literature Cited; Index.