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Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49) /

"This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterson, A. Townsend (Andrew Townsend), 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Colección:Monographs in population biology ; no. 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Theory. Concepts of niches
  • Niches and geographic distributions
  • Part 2. Practice. Niches and distributions in practice: overview
  • Species' occurrence data
  • Environmental data
  • Modeling ecological niches
  • From niches to distributions
  • Evaluating model performance and significance
  • Part 3. Applications. Introduction to applications
  • Discovering biodiversity
  • Conservation planning and climate change effects
  • Species' invasions
  • The geography of disease transmission
  • Linking niches with evolutionary processes
  • Conclusions.