Contents

pp v-vi

List of contributors

pp vii-x

Foreword by Robert M. May (Lord May of Oxford)

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xviii

1 - Introduction: scaling biodiversity – what is the problem?

pp 1-12

PART I - Spatial scaling of species richness and distribution

pp 13-14

2 - Species–area curves and the geometry of nature

pp 15-31

3 - The distribution of species: occupancy, scale, and rarity

pp 32-50

4 - Species distribution patterns, diversity scaling and testing for fractals in southern African birds

pp 51-76

5 - Geometry of species distributions: random clustering and scale invariance

pp 77-100

6 - Toward a mechanistic basis for a unified theory of spatial structure in ecological communities at multiple spatial scales

pp 101-126

PART II - Alternative measures of biodiversity: taxonomy, phylogeny, and turnover

pp 127-128

7 - Biodiversity scaling relationships: are microorganisms fundamentally different?

pp 129-149

8 - The importance of phylogenetic structure in biodiversity studies

pp 150-167

9 - On the quantification of local variation in biodiversity scaling using wavelets

pp 168-180

10 - The scaling of spatial turnover: pruning the thicket

pp 181-222

PART III - Scaling of biological diversity with energy and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient

pp 223-224

11 - Climate and diversity: the role of history

pp 225-245

12 - Inverse latitudinal gradients in species diversity

pp 246-257

13 - Regional-to-global patterns of biodiversity, and what they have to say about mechanisms

pp 258-282

14 - Recasting the species–energy hypothesis: the different roles of kinetic and potential energy in regulating biodiversity

pp 283-299

15 - Scaling species richness and distribution: uniting the species–area and species–energy relationships

pp 300-322

PART IV - Processes, perspectives, and syntheses

pp 323-324

16 - Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes, and implications

pp 325-346

17 - Scaling biodiversity under neutrality

pp 347-375

18 - General patterns in plant invasions: a family of quasi-neutral models

pp 376-395

19 - Extinction and population scaling

pp 396-408

20 - Survival of species in patchy landscapes: percolation in space and time

pp 409-440

21 - Biodiversity power laws

pp 441-461