Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226044688 ISBN 13: 9780226044682

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2005

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Synthesizing theoretical and empirical analyses of the processes that help shape these unique ecosystems, Tropical Rainforests looks at the effects of evolutionary histories, past climate change, and ecological dynamics on the origin and maintenance of tropical rainforest communities. Featuring recent advances in paleoecology, climatology, geology, molecular systematics, biogeography, and community ecology, the volume also offers insights from those fields into how rainforests will endure the impact of anthropogenic change. With more than sixty contributors, Tropical Rainforests will be of great interest to students and professionals in tropical ecology and conservation.

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Eldredge Bermingham is a staff scientist and deputy director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and an associate professor in the biology departments of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and McGill University in Montreal. Christopher Dick is a Tupper postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Craig Moritz is director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, chairman of the Berkeley Natural History Museum, and professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Tropical Rainforests

PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

The University of Chicago Press

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Contents

1 From the Past to the Future: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Tropical Rainforests Craig Moritz, Christopher W. Dick, and Eldredge Bermingham..................................................................................1PART I. EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF TROPICAL RAINFOREST DIVERSITY2 Overview: The History and Ecology of Tropical Rainforest Communities Eldredge Bermingham and Christopher W. Dick......................................................................................................................73 Phylogenetic Perspectives on Patterns of Regional and Local Species Richness Robert E. Ricklefs.......................................................................................................................................164 Large-Scale Diversity and Species-Area Relationships in Tropical Tree Communities under the Neutral Theory Stephen P. Hubbell.........................................................................................................415 Palynological Richness and the Tropical Rainforest John R. Flenley....................................................................................................................................................................726 The Pleistocene Vector of Neotropical Diversity Paul Colinvaux........................................................................................................................................................................787 The History of Amazonian Mammals: Mechanisms and Timing of Diversification James L. Patton and Maria Nazareth F. da Silva.............................................................................................................1078 Biogeography and Diversification of African Forest Faunas: Implications for Conservation Jon Fjelds, Michelle K. Bayes, Michael W. Bruford, and Michael S. Roy.......................................................................1279 Evaluating the Divergence-with-Gene-Flow Model in Natural Populations: The Importance of Ecotones in Rainforest Speciation Thomas B. Smith, Robert K. Wayne, Derek Girman, and Michael W. Bruford.....................................14810 Geologic, Evolutionary, and Ecological Bases of the Diversification of Neotropical Butterflies: Implications for Conservation Keith S. Brown Jr.......................................................................................16611 Dynamic Landscape Models for Tropical Rainforests Brendan Mackey and Wengui Su........................................................................................................................................................20212 Understanding and Conserving Tropical Diversity: Perspectives from Barro Colorado Island Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. and Ira Rubinoff......................................................................................................22313 Landscape Heterogeneity and Species Diversity in Amazonia Kalle Ruokolainen, Hanna Tuomisto, and Risto Kalliola.......................................................................................................................25114 Spatial Changes in Tree Composition of High-Diversity Forests: How Much Is Predictable? Richard Condit, Salomn Aguilar, Andrs Hernndez, Rolando Prez, Suzanne Lao, and Christopher R. Pyke........................................27115 The El Nio Southern Oscillation Influences Tree Performance in Tropical Rainforests S. Joseph Wright.................................................................................................................................295PART II. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ON AN ENTIRE RAINFOREST SYSTEM: THE AUSTRALIAN WET TROPICS16 Overview: Rainforest History and Dynamics in the Australian Wet Tropics Craig Moritz..................................................................................................................................................31317 The Origin and Evolution of Australia's Eastern Highlands Jonathan Nott...............................................................................................................................................................32218 The Origins and Tertiary History of Australian "Tropical" Rainforests David R. Greenwood and David C. Christophel.....................................................................................................................33619 Patterns and Causes of Vegetation Change in the Australian Wet Tropics Region over the Last 10 Million Years A. Peter Kershaw, Patrick T. Moss, and Russell Wild......................................................................37420 Effects of Quaternary Climate Change on Rainforest Diversity: Insights from Spatial Analyses of Species and Genes in Australia's Wet Tropics Christopher J. Schneider and Stephen E. Williams.........................................40121 Mosaic Macroevolution in Australian Wet Tropics Arthropods: Community Assemblage by Taxon Pulses Patrice Bouchard, Daniel R. Brooks, and David K. Yeates..............................................................................42522 Biodiversity of the Freshwater Invertebrates of the Wet Tropics Region of Northeastern Australia: Patterns and Possible Determinants Richard G. Pearson...............................................................................47023 Dynamics of Seedling Recruitment in an Australian Tropical Rainforest Joseph H. Connell, Igor Debski, Catherine A. Gehring, Lloyd P. Goldwasser, Peter T. Green, Kyle E. Harms, Peter Juniper, and Tad C. Theimer.....................48624 The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity in the Wet Tropics Rainforests of Australia Nigel E. Stork.............................................................................................507PART III. RAINFOREST FUTURES25 Overview: Processes, People, and Prospects for Tropical Rainforests Craig Moritz, Christopher W. Dick, and Eldredge Bermingham........................................................................................................52926 Evolutionary Approaches to the Conservation of Tropical Rainforest Vertebrates Craig Moritz and Keith R. McDonald.....................................................................................................................53227 Parks, People, and Policies: Conflicting Agendas for Forests in Southeast Asia Kathy MacKinnon........................................................................................................................................55828 The Future of the Amazon William F. Laurance, Scott Bergen, Mark A. Cochrane, Philip M. Fearnside, Patricia Delamnica, Sammya Agra D'Angelo, Christopher Barber, and Tito Fernandes..................................................583References................................................................................................................................................................................................................................611List of Contributors......................................................................................................................................................................................................................715Index.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................723Color plates follow...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226044688
• ISBN 13: 9780226044682
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 672
• Herausgeber: Bermingham Eldredge, Dick Christopher W., Moritz Craig
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