Biodiversity Dynamics

Brings together the cutting edge findings of a number of different fields that have traditionally had little crossover: data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, & paleontology are all presented. DLC: Biological diversity.

Introduction

ix

Michael L. McKinney

Contributors

xix

Biodiversity Dynamics: Niche Preemption and Saturation in Diversity Equilibria

1

(18)

Michael L. McKinney

Part One Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations Through Higher Taxa

Do Taxa Persist as Metapopulations in Evolutionary Time?

19

(12)

Susan Harrison

Geographic Range Fragmentation and the Evolution of Biological Diversity

31

(20)

Brian A. Maurer

M. Philip Nott

Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies

51

(19)

J. L. gittleman

C. G. Anderson

S. E. Cates

H-K. Luh

J. D. Smith

Testing Models of Speciation and Extinction with Phylogenetic Trees of Extant Taxa

70

(21)

Jody Hey

Holly Hilton

Nicholas Leahy

Rong-Lin Wang

Dynamics of Diversification in State Space

91

(18)

Daniel W. McShea

Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas

109

(23)

Douglas A. Kelt

James H. Brown

The Role of Development in Evolutionary Radiations

132

(30)

Gunther J. Eble

Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa

162

(25)

Norman L. Gilinski

Part Two Community Turnover: From Populations Through Global Diversity

Scaling the Ecosystem: A Hierarchical View of Stasis and Change

187

(25)

Kenneth M. Schopf

Linda C. Ivany

Nested Patterns of Species Distribution: Processes and Implications

212

(20)

Alan H. Cutler

Equilibrial Diversity Dynamics in North American Mammals

232

(56)

John Alroy

Scales of Diversification and the Ordovician Radiation

288

(23)

Arnold I. Miller

Shuguang Mao

Preston's Ergodic Conjecture: The Accumulation of Species in Space and Time

311

(38)

Michael L. Rosenzweig

An Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis of Maximal Speciation

349

(28)

Warren D. Allmon

Paul J. Morris

Michael L. McKinney

Turnover Dynamics Across Ecological and Geological Scales

377

(28)

Gareth J. Russell

Catastrophic Fluctuations in Nutrient Levels as an Agent of Mass Extinction: Upward Scaling of Ecological Processes?

405

(25)

Ronald E. Martin

Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics

430

(21)

Richard B. Aronson

Roy E. Plotnick

References

451

(72)

Index

523

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Biodiversity Dynamics

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