The Biology of Rarity: Causes and consequences of rare—common differencesThis book began life as a review article. That article spawned a symposium which was, in turn, greatly expanded to form the present volume. As the project moved through these developmental stages (hopefully, towards attainment of its full maturity), a number of people have provided invaluable assistance to us, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them. Gordon Orians must certainly take a high place in that list. He has been both a friend and mentor to W.E.K., and many of the topics explored in this book have emerged from the resultant dialogue. His thought processes, ideas and perhaps even some of his turns of phrase emerge throughout much ofthe book. Gordon also played a pivotal role in inviting in motion, and so he has served as a catalyst the article that set this project to the book as well as one of its reagents. While he has not served as an editor of this book, he is one of its authors in more than just the literal sense. |
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Gordon H Orians | 7 |
an overview | 12 |
Imperial College at Silwood Park | 23 |
What is rarity? | 30 |
Melanie Kershaw | 42 |
Who is rare? Artefacts and complexities of rarity | 48 |
Zoological Society of London | 58 |
Who gets the short bits of the broken stick? | 63 |
South Africa | 134 |
Peter Cotgreave | 146 |
on the complexity of density | 150 |
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences | 171 |
Genetic consequences of different patterns of distribution | 174 |
Evolved consequences of rarity | 190 |
some theoretical considerations | 206 |
Holt | 209 |
Department of Biology | 86 |
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | 88 |
separating cause from consequence | 91 |
Department of Zoology and Entomology | 104 |
Norman | 108 |
How do rare species avoid extinction? A paleontological | 110 |
Extinction risk and rarity on an ecological timescale | 130 |
Museum of Natural History | 230 |
Institute of Zoology | 232 |
the comparative | 237 |
Concluding comments | 262 |
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The Biology of Rarity: Causes and consequences of rare—common differences W.E. Kunin,K.J. Gaston Ograniczony podgląd - 2012 |
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