geographic introdution macroecology biodiversity

books:

Macroecology: Concepts and Consequences: 43rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the ...

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Major researchers in the field present overviews of current thinking about the form and determinants of macroecological patterns. Each section presents different viewpoints on the answer to a key question in macroecology: Why are most species rare and small-bodied, and restricted in their distribution?

Biodiversity: A Biology of Numbers and Difference

Blackwell Science, 1996

Biodiversity: An Introdution

1 review
Kevin J. Gaston, John I. Spicer

Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Tries to do too much..
This is a very terse book. The stated purpose, according to the authors (Kevin Gaston and John Spicer at the University of Sheffield, UK) is to "cover as much ground in as few pages as possible." It succeeds, to a limited extent, by providing an outline to key issues associated with biodiversity research. It supplements this skeletal approach with numerous references for additional reading, ...

The Structure and Dynamics of Geographic Ranges (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)
Kevin J. Gaston

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these distributions - the structure of the geographic ranges of species. Gaston is particularly concerned with the factors that determine the limits to a species' geographic range, how the sizes of those ranges vary, and patterns in that variation. Also considered are the ...