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1 online resource (498 pages). |
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Ecological Reviews
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Ecological reviews.
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Cover; Scaling Biodiversity; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; References; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: scaling biodiversity -- what is the problem?; Part I. Spatial scaling of species richness and distribution; Part II. Alternative measures of biodiversity: taxonomy, phylogeny, and turnover; Part III. Scaling of biological diversity with energy and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient; Part IV. Processes, perspectives, and syntheses; Concluding remarks; References; PART I: Spatial scaling of species richness and distribution. |
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CHAPTER TWO: Species-area curves and the geometry of natureIntroduction; Gradient analysis; The geometry of heterogeneity and the species-area relationship; The fractal geometry of the landscape and species richness; Multiple gradients; The Environmental Texture Model of the triphasic species-area curve; Low D at fine scales; High D at intermediate scales; Low D at broad scales; Exceptions; The case of mountainous regions; Richness of North American vascular floras in mountainous regions; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. |
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CHAPTER THREE: The distribution of species: occupancy, scale, and rarityIntroduction; Occupancy-area models; Testing the models; Random and fractal simulations; Species distributions at the local scale; Species distributions at the regional scale; Estimating occupancy at fine scales from the occupancy at coarse scales; Comparing the slope between rare and common species; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER FOUR: Species distribution patterns, diversity scaling and testing for fractals in southern African birds; Introduction; Methods; The fractal model; The cross-scale model. |
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Synthetic realizations of the cross-scale modelModel fitting: testing for fractal and cross-scale relationships; Maximum likelihood estimation; A comparison with the saturation model; Species distribution data; Species-area relationships; Results; Discussion; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER FIVE: Geometry of species distributions: random clustering and scale invariance; Introduction; Self-similarity and hierarchical aggregation; Fractals; Generalized fractals; Generating generalized fractals -- models of more or less random multiscale aggregation; M1 The fractal model. |
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M2 The model of stable proportion of occupied area among levelsM3 The model of stable proportion of area within levels; M4 The random proportion model; M5 The area- and taxa-invariance model; Model properties and tests; The relationship between area and probability of occurrence; The species-area relationship; Frequency distribution of the occupied Euclidean area; Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix 5.I: The area- and taxa-invariant distribution; Appendix 5. II: Calculating the distribution of occupied areas; M2 The model of stable proportion of occupied area between levels. |
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M3 The model of stable proportion of area within levels. |
| Summary |
Leading experts in ecology present new, innovative, views on quantitative patterns of biological diversity. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biodiversity.
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Biodiversity. |
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Biodiversity -- Monitoring.
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Biodiversity -- Monitoring. |
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Scaling (Social sciences)
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Scaling (Social sciences) |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Marquet, Pablo.
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Brown, James.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Storch, David. Scaling Biodiversity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2007 9780521876025 |
| ISBN |
9781139528030 |
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1139528033 |
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9781139525640 (electronic book) |
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1139525646 (electronic book) |
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9781139530316 (electronic book) |
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1139530313 (electronic book) |
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128352838X |
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9781283528382 |
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9780511814938 (electronic book) |
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0511814933 (electronic book) |
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9780521876025 |
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0521876028 |
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9780521699372 |
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0521699371 |
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