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Systematics, ecology, and the biodiversity crisis / edited by Niles Eldredge.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c1992.Description: ix, 220 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0231075286 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.95/11 20
LOC classification:
  • QH313 .S97 1992
Contents:
Where the twain meet : causal intersections between the genealogical and ecological realms / Niles Eldredge -- Patterns of biodiversity / Norman I. Platnick -- Systematic versus ecological diversity : the example of the Malagasy primates / Ian Tattersall -- Spilling over the competitive limits to species coexistence / George Stevens -- Explaining patterns of biological diversity : integrating causation at different spatial and temporal scales / Joel Cracraft -- Phylogenetic and ecologic patterns in the Phanerozoic history of marine biodiversity / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. -- The meaning of systematics and the biodiversity crisis / Michael J. Novacek -- Phylogenetic analysis and the role of systematics in the biodiversity crisis / Melanie L.J. Stiassny -- Systematics, biodiversity, and conservation biology / George F. Barrowclough -- Systematics and marine conservation / Judith E. Winston -- The conservation of animal diversity in Cuba / Gilberto Silva Taboada -- Living collections and biodiversity / Nathan R. Flesness -- Third world museums and biodiversity / P.E. Vanzolini.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks QH313.S97 1992 1 Available 33710000646500

"Outgrowth of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in March 1990"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where the twain meet : causal intersections between the genealogical and ecological realms / Niles Eldredge -- Patterns of biodiversity / Norman I. Platnick -- Systematic versus ecological diversity : the example of the Malagasy primates / Ian Tattersall -- Spilling over the competitive limits to species coexistence / George Stevens -- Explaining patterns of biological diversity : integrating causation at different spatial and temporal scales / Joel Cracraft -- Phylogenetic and ecologic patterns in the Phanerozoic history of marine biodiversity / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. -- The meaning of systematics and the biodiversity crisis / Michael J. Novacek -- Phylogenetic analysis and the role of systematics in the biodiversity crisis / Melanie L.J. Stiassny -- Systematics, biodiversity, and conservation biology / George F. Barrowclough -- Systematics and marine conservation / Judith E. Winston -- The conservation of animal diversity in Cuba / Gilberto Silva Taboada -- Living collections and biodiversity / Nathan R. Flesness -- Third world museums and biodiversity / P.E. Vanzolini.

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