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Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns »
Authors: Peter W. Price
ISBN-13: 9780521817127, ISBN-10: 0521817129
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Peter W. Price
Peter W. Price is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA. Over the past 40 years Professor Price has contributed over 200 research articles and book chapters to the scientific literature and has been sole author or an editor of 11 books. He has received the Founder's Memorial Award from the Entomological Society of America and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Book Synopsis
Sets the ecological themes of abundance, distribution, and population dynamics in an evolutionary context.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | The general thesis | 1 |
| 2 | Historical views on distribution, abundance, and population dynamics | 9 |
| 3 | The focal species - Basic biology | 48 |
| 4 | The focal species - Emergent properties | 68 |
| 5 | The focal group - The common sawflies | 91 |
| 6 | Convervent constraints in divergent taxonomic groups | 125 |
| 7 | Divergent constraints and emergent properties | 145 |
| 8 | Common constraints and divergent emergent properties | 182 |
| 9 | The thesis applied to parasitoids, plants, and vertebrate taxa | 195 |
| 10 | Theory development and synthesis | 220 |
| Glossary | 242 | |
| References | 246 | |
| Author index | 274 | |
| Taxonomic index | 279 | |
| Subject index | 287 |
Subjects
Science & Nature
Ecology & Environment Ecology - General & Miscellaneous
Science & Nature Evolution Macroevolution
Science & Nature All Science & Nature Biology & Life Sciences
Science & Nature All Science & Nature Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Nonfiction Science & Nature Biology
Nonfiction Science & Nature Ecology & Environment
Nonfiction Science & Nature Evolution
Nonfiction Science & Nature All Science & Nature
Ecology & Environment Ecology - General & MiscellaneousScience & Nature
Evolution MacroevolutionScience & Nature
All Science & Nature Biology & Life SciencesScience & Nature
All Science & Nature Ecology & Environmental SciencesNonfiction
Science & Nature BiologyNonfiction
Science & Nature Ecology & EnvironmentNonfiction
Science & Nature EvolutionNonfiction
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