Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment

This research level text provides an up-to-date, authoritative review of the methods of measuring biological diversity, as well as the application of thesemethods. INDICE: Robert M. May: Foreword; 1: Anne E. Magurran and Brian J. McGill: Challenges and Opportunities in Biodiversity Assessment; PART I - BASIC MEASUREMENT ISSUES; 2: Scott A. Bonar, Jeffery S. Fehmi, and Norman Mercado-Silva: An Overview of Sampling Issues in Species Diversity and Abundance Surveys; 3: Stephen T. Buckland, Angelika Studeny, Anne E. Magurran and Stuart E. Newson: Biodiversity Monitoring: the Relevance of Detectability; PART II - DIVERSITY; 4: Nicholas J. Gotelli and Robert K. Colwell: Estimating Species Richness; 5: Brian A. Maurer and Brian J. McGill: Measurement of Species Diversity; 6: Lou Jost, Anne Chao, and Robin L. Chazdon: Compositional Similarity and Beta Diversity; 7: Anne E. Magurran: Measuring Biological Diversity in Time (and Space); PART III - DISTRIBUTION; 8: Anne E. Magurran and Peter A. Henderson: Commonness and Rarity; 9: Brian J. McGill: Species Abundance Distributions; 10: SeanR. Connolly and Maria Dornelas: Fitting and Empirical Evaluation of Models for Species Abundance Distributions; 11: Kevin J. Gaston and Fangliang He: Species Occurrence and Occupancy; 12: Brian J. McGill: Measuring the Spatial Structure of Biodiversity; PART IV - ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF DIVERSITY; 13: Evan Weiher: A Primer of Trait Diversity; 14: Mark Vellend, William K. Cornwell, KarenMagnuson-Ford, and Arne Ø. Mooers: Measuring Phylogenetic Biodiversity; 15: Melanie Culver, Robert Fitak and Hans-Werner Herrmann: Genetic Methods for Biodiversity Assessment; PART V - APPLICATIONS; 16: Lise Øvreås and Thomas P. Curtis: Microbial Diversity and Ecology; 17: Maria Dornelas, Candan Soykan, and Karl Inne Ugland: Biodiversity and Disturbance; 18: Steven L. Chown and Melodie A. McGeoch: Measuring Biodiversity in Managed Landscapes; 19: Peter J. Wagner and S. Kathleen Lyons: Estimating Extinction with the Fossil Record; 20: Michael L. Rosenzweig, John Donoghue II, Yue Max Li and Chi Yuan: Estimating Species Density; PART VI - CONCLUSIONS; 21: Brian J. McGill and Anne E. Magurran: Conclusions; References; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958066-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés