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Zusatztext probably the best single-volume book on biodiversity available to date. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This research level text provides an up-to-date! authoritative review of the methods of measuring biological diversity! as well as the application of these methods. Zusammenfassung This research level text provides an up-to-date, authoritative review of the methods of measuring biological diversity, as well as the application of these methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: 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 ...
