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Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa, and Communities

Edited by Michael L. McKinney and James A. Drake

Paper, 552 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10415-9
$40.00 / £23.50

November, 1998
Cloth, 552 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10414-2
$85.50 / £50.50

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Introduction, by Michael McKinney

Biodiversity dynamics: Niche preemption and saturation in diversity equilibria, by Michael McKinney

Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations through Higher Taxa

Do taxa persist as metapopulations in evolutionary time?, by Susan Harrison

Geographic range fragmentation and the evolution of biological diversity, by Brian Maurer and Phillip Nott

Detecting ecological pattern in phylogenies, by John Gittleman, C. Anderson, S. Cates, H-K Luh, H. Hilton, N. Leahy, R-L Wan

Testing models of speciation and extinction with phylogenetic trees of extant taxa, by Jody Hey, Holly Hinton, Nicholas Leahy, Rong-Lin Wang

Dynamics of diversification in state space, by Daniel W. McShea

Diversification of body sizes: patterns and processes in the assembly of terrestrial mammal faunas, by Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown

The role of development in evolutionary radiations, by Gunther J. Eble

Declining taxonomic turnover in geologic time, by Norman Gilinsky

Community Turnover: From Populations through Global Diversity

Scaling the ecosystem: A hierarchical view of stasis and change, by Kenneth M. Schopf and Linda C. Ivany

Nested patterns of species distribution: processes and implications, by Alan Cutler

Diversification of North American mammals: a test of equilibrial dynamics, by John Alroy

Scales of diversification and the Ordovician radiation, by Arnold I. Miller and Shuguang Mao

Preston's ergodic conjecture: the accumulation of species in space and time, by Michael L. Rosenweig

An intermediate disturbance hypothesis of maximal speciation, by Warren Allmon, Paul Morris, Michael McKinney

Turnover dynamics across ecological and geological scales, by Gareth Russell

Catastrophic fluctuations in nutrient levels as an agent of mass extinction: upward scaling of ecological processes?, by Ronald E. Martin

Scale-independent interpretations of macroevolutionary dynamics, by Richard B. Aronson and Roy E. Plotnick

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About the Author

Michael L. McKinney is professor of geology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. James A. Drake is an associate professor in the Department of Zoology and the Graduate Ecology Program at the University of Tennessee.

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