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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32) / Stephen P. Hubbell

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Monographs in population biology ; 32Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: XIV, 375 S. : graph. DarstISBN:
  • 9781400837526
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781400837526. | 0691021295 | 0691021287 | Erscheint auch als: 9780691021287 printDDC classification:
  • 578.09
  • SCI008000
RVK: RVK: ZC 73300 | WI 2000LOC classification:
  • QH541.15.B56H83 2001
  • QH541.15.B56 H83 2008
DOI: DOI: 10.1515/9781400837526Online resources: Summary: Main description: Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now biogeography (the study of the geographic distribution of species) and biodiversity (the study of species richness and relative species abundance) have had largely disjunct intellectual histories. In this book, Stephen Hubbell develops a formal mathematical theory that unifies these two fields. When a speciation process is incorporated into Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's now classical theory of island biogeography, the generalized theory predicts the existence of a universal, dimensionless biodiversity number. In the theory, this fundamental biodiversity number, together with the migration or dispersal rate, completely determines the steady-state distribution of species richness and relative species abundance on local to large geographic spatial scales and short-term to evolutionary time scales. Although neutral, Hubbell's theory is nevertheless able to generate many nonobvious, testable, and remarkably accurate quantitative predictions about biodiversity and biogeography. In many ways Hubbell's theory is the ecological analog to the neutral theory of genetic drift in genetics. The unified neutral theory of biogeography and biodiversity should stimulate research in new theoretical and empirical directions by ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and biogeographers.Original version: Originalfassung: 2001PPN: PPN: 82147930XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: EBA-BACKALL | EBA-EBACKALL | EBA-EBKALL | EBA-EEBKALL | EBA-ESTMALL | EBA-PPALL | EBA-STMALL | GBV-deGruyter-alles | ZDB-23-DGG | ZDB-23-9
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