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Biodiversity and extinction /
"This is the second volume from the In the Light of Evolution series, based on a series of Arthur M. Sackler colloquia, and designed to promote the evolutionary sciences. Each installment explores evolutionary perspectives on a particular biological topic that is scientifically intriguing but a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , , |
| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
[2008]
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| Colección: | In the light of evolution ;
v. II |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Contemporary patterns and processes in animals. Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean / Jeremy B.C. Jackson
- Are we in the midst of the sixth great extinction? : a view from the world of amphibians / David B. Wake and Vance T. Vredenburg
- Patterns of biodiversity and endemism on Indo-West Pacific coral reefs / Marjorie L. Reaka, Paula J. Rogers, and Alexei U. Kudla
- Homage to Linnaeus : how many parasites? How many hosts? / Andy Dobson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Armand M. Kuris, Ryan F. Hechinger, and Walter Jetz
- Part II. Contemporary patterns and processes in plants and microbes. Species invasions and extinction : the future of native biodiversity on islands / Dov F. Sax and Steven D. Gaines
- How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct? / Stephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He, Richard Condit, Luis Borda-de-Água, James Kellner and Hans Ter Steege
- Microbes on mountainsides : contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity / Jessica A. Bryant, Christine Lamanna, Hélène Morlon, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist, and Jessica L. Green
- Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities / Steve D. Allison and Jennifer B.H. Martiny
- Part III. Trends and processes in the paleontological past. Exinction as the loss of evolutionary history / Douglas H. Erwin
- Exintction and the spacial dynamics of biodiversity / David Jablonski
- Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record / John Alroy
- Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of quarternary and future extinctions / Anthony D. Barnosky
- Part IV. Prospects for the future. A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity / Michael J. Donoghue
- Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity / T. Jonathan Davies, Susanne A. Fritz, Richard Grenyer, C. David L. Orme, Jon Bielby, Olaf R. Binida-Emonds, Marcel Cardillo, Kate E. Jones, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis
- Three ambitious (and rather unorthodox) assignments for the field of biodiversity genetics / John C. Avise
- Engaging the public in biodiversity issues / Michael J. Novacek
- Further engaging the public on biodiversity issues / Peter J. Bryant
- Where does biodiversity go from here? : a grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions / Paul R . Ehrlich and Robert M. Pringle.