عنوان

Biology of Rarity :

9401158746

9789401158749

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Biology of Rarity :

[Book]

Causes and consequences of rarecommon differences.

M B Usher

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

2012

(290 pages)

Front ; Contents; Contributors; Preface; PART ONE: RARITY AND RARE-COMMON DIFFERENCES; 1 Introduction: on the causes and consequences of rare-common differences; Rare-com. mon differences: an overVIew; 3 What is rarity?; 4 Who is rare? Artefacts and complexities of rarity determination; PART TWO: MECHANISMS CREATING RAREƯCOMMON DIFFERENCES; 5 Who gets the short bits of the broken stick?; 6 Speciation and rarity: separating cause from consequence; 7 How do rare species avoid extinction? A paleontological view; 8 Extinction risk and rarity on an ecological timescale. 9 Population biology and rarity: on the complexity of density dependence in insect-plant interactions10 Genetic consequences of different patterns of distribution and abundance; 11 Evolved consequences of rarity; 12 Rarity and evolution: some theoretical considerations; PART THREE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS; 13 Predicting and understanding rarity: the comparative approach; 14 Concluding comments; Index.

Evolution (Biology)

M B Usher

B F J Manly

D L DeAngelis

M B Usher

[Book]

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