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The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography /
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,
2001.
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| Colección: | Monographs in population biology ;
32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. MacArthur and Wilson's Radical Theory
- 2. On Current Theories of Relative Species Abundance
- 3. Dynamical Models of the Relative Abundance of Species
- 4. Local Community Dynamics under Ecological Drift
- 5. Metacommunity Dynamics and the Unified Theory
- 6. The Unified Theory and Dynamical Species-Area Relationships
- 7. Metapopulations and Biodiversity on the Metacommunity Landscape
- 8. Speciation, Phylogeny, and the Evolution of Metacommunity Biodiversity
- 9. Sampling, Parameter Estimation, and the Generality of the Unified Theory
- 10. Reconciling Dispersal-Assembly and Niche-Assembly Theories.