BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY P

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-958067-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 704 g

Biological Diversity provides an up to date, authoritative review of the methods of measuring and assessing biological diversity, together with their application. The book's emphasis is on quantifying the variety, abundance, and occurrence of taxa, and on providing objective and clear guidance for both scientists and managers. This is a fast-moving field and one that is the focus of intense research interest. However the rapid development of new methods, the inconsistent and sometimes confusing application of old ones, and the lack of consensus in the literature about the best approach, means that there is a real need for a current synthesis.

Biological Diversity covers fundamental measurement issues such as sampling, re-examines familiar diversity metrics (including species richness, diversity statistics, and estimates of spatial and temporal turnover), discusses species abundance distributions and how best to fit them, explores species occurrence and the spatial structure of biodiversity, and investigates alternative approaches used to assess trait, phylogenetic, and genetic diversity. The final section of the book turns to a selection of contemporary challenges such as measuring microbial diversity, evaluating the impact of disturbance, assessing biodiversity in managed landscapes, measuring diversity in the imperfect fossil record, and using species density estimates in management and conservation.

Zielgruppe

This accessible text is suitable for graduate students, professional researchers, and practitioners in the fields of ecology and conservation biology. It will be essential reading for all researchers working on biological diversity and of relevance and use to environmental managers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Magurran

Magurran, Anne E.

McGill, Brian J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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: Sean R. 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, Karen Magnuson-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

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Magurran is a professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland and an ecologist interested in the measurement, conservation and evolution of biological diversity. She has current research projects in Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico and the UK and is the author of Ecological Diversity and its Measurement (1988) and Measuring Biological Diversity (2004).

Brian McGill is a professor at the University of Arizona. He is interested in understanding and measuring how human-caused global change (especially global warming and land cover change) affect communities of organisms. He works with large datasets from many different types of organisms and locations.