The speciesarea relationship (SAR) describes a range of related phenomena that are fundamental to the study of biogeography, macroecology and community ecology. While the subject of ongoing debate for a century, surprisingly, no previous book has focused specifically on the SAR. This volume addresses this shortfall by providing a synthesis of the development of SAR typologies and theory, as well as empirical research and application to biodiversity conservation problems. It also includes a compilation of recent advances in SAR research, comprising novel SAR-related theories and findings from the leading authors in the field. The chapters feature specific knowledge relating to terrestrial, marine and freshwater realms, ensuring a comprehensive volume relevant to a wide range of fields, with a mix of review and novel material and with clear recommendations for further research and application.
The speciesarea relationship is a fundamental but poorly understood pattern and building block within biogeography and ecology. It is covered within ecology, biogeography and conservation courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This book combines reviews of key concepts and theory with novel cutting-edge theoretical and applied research.
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'Each chapter of the text is a technical paper written by researchers who have been actively exploring little-known facets of the species-area relationship that have escaped the attention of mainstream ecologists. The results of this effort are frequently interesting and occasionally surprisingly insightful. Community ecologists, landscape ecologists, and conservationists will find useful information about the species-area relationship in this volume each chapter is presented in standard, scientific communication format. Recommended.' S. R. Fegley, Choice
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Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the speciesarea relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.
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Part I Introduction and History |
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1 The Species--Area Relationship: Both General and Protean? |
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2 The History of the Species--Area Relationship |
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Part II Diversity-Area Relationships: The Different Types and Underlying Factors |
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3 Explaining Variation in Island Species--Area Relationship (ISAR) Model Parameters between Different Archipelago Types: Expanding a Global Model of ISARs |
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4 Determinants of the Shape of Species-Area Curves |
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5 Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity--Area Relationships |
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6 Species--Area Relationships in Alien Species: Pattern and Process |
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Part III Theoretical Advances in Species-Area Relationship Research |
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7 Mathematical Expressions for the Species--Area Relationship and the Assumptions behind the Models |
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8 Biodiversity Scaling on a Continuous Plane: Geometric Underpinnings of the Nested Species-Area Relationship |
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9 Species Accumulation Curves and Extreme Value Theory |
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10 The Species-Area Relationship: Idiosyncratic or Produced by `Laws Acting around Us'? |
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11 The Species-Area Relationships of Ecological Neutral Theory |
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12 On the Interface of Food Webs and Spatial Ecology: The Trophic Dimension of Species-Area Relationships |
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Part IV The Species--Area Relationship in Applied Ecology |
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13 The Identification of Biodiversity Hotspots Using the Species--Area Relationship |
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14 Using the Species-Area Relationship to Predict Extinctions Resulting from Habitat Loss |
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15 Using Network Analysis to Explore the Role of Dispersal in Producing and Maintaining Island Species-Area Relationships |
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16 Does Geometry Dominate Extinction due to Habitat Loss? |
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17 Using Relict Species--Area Relationships to Estimate the Conservation Value of Reservoir Islands to Improve Environmental Impact Assessments of Dams |
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18 An Investigation of Species-Area Relationships in Marine Systems at Large Spatial Scales |
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Part V Future Directions in Species-Area Relationship Research |
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19 The Island Species--Area Relationship: Rosenzweig's Dinosaur Is Still Alive |
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Thomas J. Matthews is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, a Research Member of the Azorean Biodiversity Group, Portugal, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. He is a leading researcher in the fields of macroecology and biogeography, and much of his research involves the species-area relationship in some form. He is also the lead-author of a key SAR software resource, and an Associate Editor of Frontiers of Biogeography. Kostas A. Triantis is an Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Biogeography and, since 2015, has been Director-at-Large of the International Biogeography Society. He is a biogeographer with broad interests in island biogeography, macroecology, and conservation biology and has a long-term fascination with the speciesarea relationship. Robert J. Whittaker is an expert in island biogeography and conservation biogeography. He has been Professor of Biogeography at the University of Oxford since 2004, and a part-time Professor at University of Copenhagen, in the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, since 2015. He has published over 150 articles, and three previous books. He is editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of the International Biogeography Society.
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