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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 January 2010
      04 May 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511623387
      9780521499521
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511623387
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      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.785kg, 460 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation
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    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.

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    ‘I will recommend Species Diversity in Space and Time to my graduate students to read because the good bits outweigh the bad. It will give us much to think about, and should generate some lively debates.’

    John H. Lawton Source: Nature

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