{"product_id":"macroecology-concepts-and-consequences-43rd-symposium-of-the-british-ecological-society-paperback-9780521549325","title":"Macroecology: Concepts and Consequences; 43rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Paperback) 9780521549325","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMacroecology: Concepts and Consequences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e43rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProvides an overview of current thinking about macroecological patterns.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTim M. Blackburn (Edited by), Kevin J. Gaston (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521549325, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 1 August 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages, 136 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.8 x 17.1 x 2.5 cm, 1.022 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book … presents macroecology at its broadest sense, with achievements that have emerged in various biological disciplines, and which thus can be treated under this label because they greatly contributed to answers of … major ecological questions … It is therefore an extremely useful reading not only for those interested in macroecology itself, but for everybody who wants to know which big ecological ideas are now in the air.' David Storch, Charles University, Czech Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMacroecology: Concepts and Consequences brings together for the first time major researchers in the field to present overviews of current thinking about the form and determinants of macroecological patterns. Each section presents different viewpoints on the answer to a key question in macroecology, such as why are most species rare, why are most species small-bodied, and why are most species restricted in their distribution?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: why Macroecology? Tim M. Blackburn and Kevin J. Gaston\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Why Are Some Taxa More Diverse Than Others?: 2. Evolutionary analysis of species richness patterns in aquatic beetles: why macroecology needs a historical perspective Alfried P. Vogler and Ignacio Ribera\u003cbr\u003e 3. The unified phenomenological theory of biodiversity Sean Nee\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Why Are Most Species Rare?: 4. The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography, and beyond Stephen P. Hubbell and Jeffrey Lake\u003cbr\u003e 5. Breaking the stick in space: of niche models, metacommunities and patterns in the relative abundance of species Pablo A. Marquet, Juan E. Keymer and Hernán Cofré\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Why Are There More Species in the Tropics?: 6. How to reject the area hypothesis of latitudinal gradients Michael L. Rosenzweig\u003cbr\u003e 7. Climatic–energetic explanations of diversity: a macroscopic perspective Robert J. Whittaker, Katherine J. Willis and Richard Field\u003cbr\u003e 8. The importance of historical processes in global patterns of diversity Andrew Clarke and J. Alistair Crame\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Why are More Species Small-Bodied?: 9. Why are most species small-bodied? A phylogenetic view Andy Purvis, C. David L. Orme and Konrad Dolphin\u003cbr\u003e 10. Adaptive diversification of body size: the roles of physical constraint, energetics and natural selection Brian A. Maurer\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Why are some species more likely to go extinct?: 11. Life histories and extinction risk John D. Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e 12. Routes to extinction Bernt-Erik Sæther and Steinar Engen\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Why Aren't Species More Widely Distributed?: 13. Why aren't species more widely distributed? Physiological and environmental limits F. Ian Woodward and C. K. Kelly\u003cbr\u003e 14. Macroecology and microecology: linking large-scale patterns of abundance to population processes Andrew R. Watkinson, Jennifer A. Gill and Robert P. Freckleton\u003cbr\u003e 15. Genetics and the boundaries of species' distributions R. K. Butlin, J. R. Bridle and M. Kawata\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Why Are There Interspecific Allometries?: 16. Intraspecific body size optimisation produces interspecific allometries J. Kozowski, M. Konarzewski and A. T. Gawelczyk\u003cbr\u003e 17. Scaling the macroecological, and evolutionary implications of size and metabolism within and across plant taxa Brian J. Enquist\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. Why is Macroecology Important?: 18. Macroecology and conservation biology Kevin J. Gaston and Tim M. Blackburn\u003cbr\u003e 19. Evolutionary macroecology and the fossil record David Jablonski, Kaustuv Roy and James W. Valentine\u003cbr\u003e 20. Comparative methods for adaptive radiations Robert P. Freckleton, M. Pagel and Paul H. Harvey\u003cbr\u003e 21. The next step in macroecology: from general empirical patterns to universal ecological laws James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, Geoffrey B. West and Van M. 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