Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities

Table of contents

• Biodiversity Dynamics *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• Contributors xix
• 1 - Biodiversity Dynamics: Niche Preemption and Saturation in Diversity Equilibria 1
• Part One - Phylogenetic Turnover: from Population through Higher Taxa *
• 2 - Do Taxa Persist as Metapopulations in Evolutionary Time? 19
• 3 - Geographic Range Fragmentation and the Evolution of Biological Diversity 31
• 4 - Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies 51
• 5 - Testing Models of Speciation and Extinction with Phylogenetic Trees of Extant Taxa 70
• 6 - Dynamics of Diversification in State Space 91
• 7 - Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas 109
• 8 - The Role of Development in Evolutionary Radiations 132
• 9 - Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa 162
• Part Two - Community Turnover: from Populations through Global Diversity *
• 10 - Scaling the Ecosystem: a Hierarchical View of Stasis and Change 187
• 11 - Nested Patterns of Species Distribution:Processes and Implications 212
• 12 - Equilibrial Diversity Dynamics in North American Mammals 232
• 13 - Scales of Diversification and the Ordovician Radiation 288
• 14 - Preston's Ergodic Conjecture:The Accumulation of Species in Space and Time 311
• 15 - An Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis of Maximal Speciation 349
• 16 - Turnover Dynamics across Ecological and Geological Scales 377
• 17 - Catastrophic Fluctuations in Nutrient Levels as an Agent of Mass Extinction: Upward Scaling of Ecological Processes? 405
• 18 - Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics 430
• References 451
• Index 523

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