Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives.

摘要: "Species Diversity in Ecological Communities" looks at biodiversity its broadest geographical and historical contexts. For many decades, ecologists have tended to study only small areas over short time spans the belief that diversity is regulated by local ecological interactions. However, understand fully how communities come they do address properly urgent conservation problems we face, scientists must consider global patterns of species richness events shape both regional communities. The authors use new theoretical developments, analyses case studies explore large-scale mechanisms generate maintain diversity. Case various regions organisms processes interact determine richness. contributors emphasize fact acting quickly on a scale not erase effects occur more slowly less frequently.