Contributor
Smith, Felisa A. editor.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Descriptionxv, 800 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note:Macroecology: The division of food and space among species on continents / J.H. Brown and B.A. Maurer (1989) -- Part One: Macroecology before macroecology / Edited by James H. Brown, S.K. Morgan Ernest, and Ethan P. White -- Distribution of the species over the area / O. Arrhenius (1920) -- The relation between the number of species and the number of individuals in a random sample of an animal population / R.A. Fisher, A.S. Corbet, and C.B. Williams (1943) -- The generic relations of species in small ecological communities / C.B. Williams (1947) -- A theoretical ecological model of size distributions among species of animals / G.E. Hutchinson and R.H. MacArthur (1959) -- Aggregation, variance and the mean / L.R. Taylor -- Bioenergetics and the determination of home range size / B.K. McNab (1963) -- Community evolution and the origin of mammals / E.C. Olson (1966) -- A continuous size spectrum for particulate matter in the sea / R.W. Sheldon and T.R. Parsons (1967) -- Net primary productivity of terrestrial communities: Prediction from climatological data / M.L. Rosenzweig (1968) -- Marine benthic diversity: A comparative study / H.L. Sanders (1968)Part Two: Dimensions of macroecology -- Allometry and body size / Edited by Alistair Evans, Daniel P. Costa, Karl J. Niklas, Richard M. Sibly, and Felisa A. Smith -- Size and shape in biology / T.A. McMahon -- Intrinsic rate of natural increase: The relationship with body size / T. Fenchel (1974) -- Population density and body size in mammals / J. Damuth (1981) -- Body size, physiological time, and longevity of homeothermic animals / S.L. Lindstedt and W.A. Calder III (1981) -- Species number, species abundance and body length relationships of arboreal beetles in Bornean Lowland rain forest trees / D.R. Morse, N.E. Stork, and J.H. Lawton (1988) -- Theory of growth geometry of plants and self-thinning of plant populations: Geometric similarity, elastic similarity, and different growth modes of plant parts / R. . Norberg (1988) -- Spatial scaling of species composition: Body mass of North American land mammals / J.H. Brown and P.F. Nicoletto (1991) -- A new evolutionary law / L. Van Valen (1973) -- Ecospace utilization and guilds in marine communities through the Phanerozoic / R.K. Bambach (1983) -- Reponse of mammalian communities to environmental changes during the late quaternary / R.W. Graham (1986) -- Background and mass extinctions: The alternation of macroevolutionary regimes / D. Jablonski (1986) -- Evolution of species assemblages: Effects of energetic constraints and species dynamics on the diversification of the North American avifauna / J.H. Brown and B.A. Maurer (1987) -- Species-range size distributions: Products of speciation, extinction and transformation / K.J. Gaston (1998) -- Dominance and the niche in ecological systems / S.J. McNaughton and L.L. Wolf (1970) -- Geographic ranges of North American terrestrial mammals / S. Anderson (1977) -- Changing patterns in the holocene pollen record of Northeastern North America: A mapped summary / J.C. Bernabo and T. Webb III (1977) -- The latitudinal spans of seaweed species and their patterns of overlap / E.C. Pielou (1977) -- Seven forms of rarity / D. Rabinowitz (1981) -- Dynamics of regional distribution: The core and satellite species hypothesis / I. Hanski (1982) -- On the relationship between abundance and distribution of species / J.H. Brown -- The dynamics and diversity of insect faunas / R.M. May (1978) -- Determinants of diversity in higher taxonomic categories / J.W. Valentine (1980) -- Two decades of homage to Santa Rosalia: Toward a general theory of diversity / J.H. Brown (1981) -- Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record / D.M. Raup and J.J. Sepkoski Jr. (1982) -- Patterns in vascular land plant diversification / K.J. Niklas, B.H. Tiffney, and A.H. Knoll (1983) -- Species-energy theory: An extension of species-area theory / D.H. Wright (1983) -- Are the smallest organisms the most diverse? / K.P. Dial and J.M. Marzluff (1988)Alpha, beta, or gamma: Where does all the diversity go? / J.J. Sepkoski Jr. (1988) -- The latitudinal gradient in geographical range: How so many species coexist in the tropics / G.C. Stevens (1989) -- Tertiary climatic fluctuations and methods of analysis of tertiary floras / J.A. Wolfe (1971) -- Taxonomic diversity estimation using rarefaction / D.M. Raup (1975) -- The statistics and biology of the species-area relationship / E.F. Connor and E.D. McCoy (1979) -- Comparisons between taxa and adaptive trends: Problems of methodology / P.H. Harvey and G.M. Mace (1982) -- A null model for null models in biogeography / R.K. Colwell and D.W. Winkler (1984) -- Phylogenies and the comparative method / J. Felsenstein (1985).
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