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The geographic mosaic of coevolution /

Coevolution-reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection-is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, John N., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Colección:Interspecific interactions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The overall argument
  • Raw materials for coevolution I: populations, species, and lineages
  • Raw materials for coevolution II: ecological structure and distributed outcomes
  • Local adaptation I: geographic selection mosaics
  • Local adaptation II: rates of adaptation and classes of coevolutionary dynamics
  • The conceptual framework: the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution
  • Coevolutionary diversification
  • Analyzing the geographic mosaic of coevolution
  • Antagonists I: the geographic mosaic of coevolving polymorphisms
  • Antagonists II: sexual reproduction and the Red Queen
  • Antagonists III: coevolutionary alternation and escalation
  • Mutualists I: attenuated antagonism and mutualistic complementarity
  • Mutualists II: the geographic mosaic of mutualistic symbioses
  • Mutualists III: convergence within mutualistic networks of free-living species
  • Coevolutionary displacement
  • Applied coevolutionary biology.