Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32)
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Adaptive radiation
Allopatric speciation
Asymmetry
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Biodiversity
Biogeography
Calculation
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Common species
Competition
Conservation biology
Correlation and dependence
Density dependence
Disperser
Distance decay
Ecology
Ecosystem
Endemism
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Estimation
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Exponential decay
Extinction event
Fecundity
First principle
Fitness (biology)
Free parameter
Gamma function
Goodness of fit
In Specie
Invertebrate
Local community
Local extinction
Logarithm
Logistic function
Longevity
Markov chain
Metacommunity
Metapopulation
Monograph
Mortality rate
Multinomial distribution
Niche differentiation
Organism
Percentage
Phanerozoic
Point mutation
Population dynamics
Population genetics
Population size
Prediction
Probability
Probability density function
Rare species
Relative abundance distribution
Relative species abundance
Sampling (statistics)
Skewness
Spatial scale
Speciation
Species
Species–area curve
Standard deviation
Statistical hypothesis testing
Stochastic process
Superorganism
Taxon
Taxonomy (biology)
Theory
Trade-off
Variance
Product details
- ISBN 9780691021287
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now biogeography (the study of the geographic distribution of species) and biodiversity (the study of species richness and relative species abundance) have had largely disjunct intellectual histories. In this book, Stephen Hubbell develops a formal mathematical theory that unifies these two fields. When a speciation process is incorporated into Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson's now classical theory of island biogeography, the generalized theory predicts the existence of a universal, dimensionless biodiversity number. In the theory, this fundamental biodiversity number, together with the migration or dispersal rate, completely determines the steady-state distribution of species richness and relative species abundance on local to large geographic spatial scales and short-term to evolutionary time scales.
Although neutral, Hubbell's theory is nevertheless able to generate many nonobvious, testable, and remarkably accurate quantitative predictions about biodiversity and biogeography. In many ways Hubbell's theory is the ecological analog to the neutral theory of genetic drift in genetics. The unified neutral theory of biogeography and biodiversity should stimulate research in new theoretical and empirical directions by ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and biogeographers.
Stephen P.Hubbell is Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia and Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He is the author of more than one hundred papers in tropical plant ecology, theoretical ecology, and plant-animal interactions. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Scholar Award in Conservation and the Environment. He is Chairman of the National Council for Science and the Environment (formerly the Committee for the National Institute for the Encironment) and the inventor of Extinction: The Game of Ecology.
