Scaling biodiversity
By: edited by David Storch, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown
Contributors: Storch, David; Marquet, P. A. 1963-; Brown, James H., 1942 Sept. 25-
Series: Ecological reviews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780521876025; 9780521699372
Subjects: Biodiversity; Biodiversity -- Monitoring; Scaling (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical refrences and index
Table of contents: title: Forward: Robert M. May; title: Introduction : scaling biodiversity - what is the problem?; title: David Storch, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown; title: Species-area curves and the geometry of nature / Michael W. Palmer; title: The distribution of species : occupancy, scale, and rarity / Fangliang He, Rick Condit; title: Species distribution patterns, diversity scaling and testing for fractals in southern African birds / Jack J. Lennon ... [et. al.]; title: Geometry of species distributions : random clustering and scale invariance / Arnošt L. Šizling, David Storch; title: Toward a mechanistic basis for a unified theory of spatial structure in ecological communities at multiple spatial scales / John Harte; title: Biodiversity scaling relationships : are microorganisms fundamentally different? / Jessica Green, Brendan J. M. Bohannan; title: The importance of phylogenetic structure in biodiversity studies / Jérôme Chave, Guillem Chust, Christophe Thebaud; title: On the quantification of local variation in biodiversity scaling using wavelets / Timothy H. Keitt; title: The scaling of spatial turnover : pruning the thicket / Kevin J. Gaston, Karl I. Evans, Jack J. Lennon; title: Climate and diversity : the role of history / Andrew Clarke; title: Inverse latitudinal gradients in species diversity / Pavel Kindlmann, Iva Schödelbauerová, Anthony F. G. Dixon; title: Regional-to-global patterns of biodiversity, and what they have to say about mechanisms / David J. Currie; title: Recasting the species-energy hypothesis : the different roles of kinetic and potential energy in regulating biodiversity / Andrew P. Allen, James F. Gillooly, James H. Brown; title: Scaling species richness and distribution : uniting the species-area and species-energy relationships / David Storch, Arnošt L. Šizling, Kevin J. Gaston; title: Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness : patterns, processes, and implications / Ethan P. White; title: Scaling biodiversity under neutrality / Luís Borda-de-Água, Stephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He; title: General patterns in plant invasions : a family of quasi-neutral models / Tomas Herben; title: Extinction and population scaling / William E. Kunin; title: Survival of species in patchy landscapes : percolation in space and time / Beáta Oborny, György Szabó, Géza Meszéna; title: Biodiversity power laws / Pablo A. Marquet, Sebastian R. Abades, Fabio A. Labra