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Cargando... Species Diversity in Space and Timepor Michael L. Rosenzweig
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A synthetic approach to examining global and historic biodiversity. The punchline of the thesis is that area is the most important factor for biodiversity, primarily (as I understand it) because increased area has a higher likelihood of potential niches available to be filled. Overall a readable science text that synthesizes many published datasets, which are reprinted and graphed. Worthwhile for ecology students and those seriously interested in understanding biodiversity, extinction, and how these change at different locations, spatial scales, and over time. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Why do larger areas have more species? What makes diversity so high near the equator? Has the number of species grown during the past 600 million years? Does habitat diversity support species diversity, or is it the other way around? What reduces diversity in ecologically productive places? At what scales of space and time do diversity patterns hold? Do the mechanisms that produce them vary with scale? This book examines these questions and many others, by employing both theory and data in the search for answers. Surprisingly, many of the questions have reasonably likely answers. By identifying these, attention can be turned toward life's many, still-unexplained diversity patterns. As evolutionary ecologists race to understand biodiversity before it is too late, this book will help set the agenda for diversity research into the next century. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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