Biodiversity and extinction /

"This is the second volume from the In the Light of Evolution series, based on a series of Arthur M. Sackler colloquia, and designed to promote the evolutionary sciences. Each installment explores evolutionary perspectives on a particular biological topic that is scientifically intriguing but a...

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Corporate Authors: In the Light of Evolution: Biodiversity and Extinction (Colloquium) Irvine, Calif.), In the Light of Evolution (Colloquium), Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences
Other Authors: Avise, John C. (Editor), Ayala, Francisco J. (Francisco José), 1934-2023 (Editor), Hubbell, Stephen P., 1942- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2008]
Series:In the light of evolution ; v. II
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505 0 |a Part I. Contemporary patterns and processes in animals. Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean / Jeremy B.C. Jackson -- Are we in the midst of the sixth great extinction? : a view from the world of amphibians / David B. Wake and Vance T. Vredenburg -- Patterns of biodiversity and endemism on Indo-West Pacific coral reefs / Marjorie L. Reaka, Paula J. Rogers, and Alexei U. Kudla -- Homage to Linnaeus : how many parasites? How many hosts? / Andy Dobson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Armand M. Kuris, Ryan F. Hechinger, and Walter Jetz -- Part II. Contemporary patterns and processes in plants and microbes. Species invasions and extinction : the future of native biodiversity on islands / Dov F. Sax and Steven D. Gaines -- How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct? / Stephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He, Richard Condit, Luis Borda-de-Água, James Kellner and Hans Ter Steege -- Microbes on mountainsides : contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity / Jessica A. Bryant, Christine Lamanna, Hélène Morlon, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist, and Jessica L. Green -- Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities / Steve D. Allison and Jennifer B.H. Martiny -- Part III. Trends and processes in the paleontological past. Exinction as the loss of evolutionary history / Douglas H. Erwin -- Exintction and the spacial dynamics of biodiversity / David Jablonski -- Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record / John Alroy -- Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of quarternary and future extinctions / Anthony D. Barnosky -- Part IV. Prospects for the future. A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity / Michael J. Donoghue -- Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity / T. Jonathan Davies, Susanne A. Fritz, Richard Grenyer, C. David L. Orme, Jon Bielby, Olaf R. Binida-Emonds, Marcel Cardillo, Kate E. Jones, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis -- Three ambitious (and rather unorthodox) assignments for the field of biodiversity genetics / John C. Avise -- Engaging the public in biodiversity issues / Michael J. Novacek -- Further engaging the public on biodiversity issues / Peter J. Bryant -- Where does biodiversity go from here? : a grim business-as-usual forecast and a hopeful portfolio of partial solutions / Paul R . Ehrlich and Robert M. Pringle. 
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