In this book, the author describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known previously.
The ethics of species: an introduction
"We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates, altering existing species in unprecedented ways and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines th…
Written by a team of leading experts in ecology, this text provides details of techniques enabling quantification of biodiversity patterns and their mathematical modelling.
Leading experts in ecology present new, innovative, views on quantitative patterns of biological diversity.
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby …
"Intended for undergraduate and graduate students in conservation biology, natural resource management, and ecology, this book compiles compelling case histories in molecular ecology"--Résumé de l'éditeur. "Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics have been embraced b…
