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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.