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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography

Stephen P. Hubbell

Why do some species end up common and others rare, and can one general theory explain how many species live in a place?

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Author
Stephen P. Hubbell

Why read it

  • You will see why understanding biodiversity matters for what we can protect, and how little we still know
  • You will weigh two rival ways of explaining why species live where they do, and how a theory can be tested
  • You will understand how the size of an area relates to how many species it can hold

Who it is for

  • An ecology student facing a hard theory
  • A conservation planner deciding what to protect
  • A researcher in biology looking for a unifying idea

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. CHAPTER ONE
  3. MacArthur and Wilson’s Radical Theory
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. On Current Theories of Relative Species Abundance
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. Dynamical Models of the Relative Abundance of Species
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. Local Community Dynamics under Ecological Drift
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. Metacommunity Dynamics and the Unified Theory
  12. CHAPTER SIX
  13. The Unified Neutral Theory and Dynamical Species-Area Relationships
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN
  15. Metapopulations and Biodiversity on the Metacommunity Landscape
  16. CHAPTER EIGHT
  17. Speciation, Phylogeny, and the Evolution of Metacommunity Biodiversity
  18. CHAPTER NINE
  19. Sampling, Parameter Estimation, and the Generality of the Unified Theory
  20. CHAPTER TEN
  21. Reconciling Dispersal-Assembly and Niche-Assembly Theories
  22. Literature Cited

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