The Origin, Expansion, And Demise Of Plant Species

Donald-A Levin

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Résumé

Combining insights from observation, experimentation, and theory, The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species offers a broad overview of species as dynamic entities that arise, have unique evolutionary histories, and ultimately go extinct. It begins with a review of species concepts and the exposition of a new concept; it then addresses plant speciation, the expansion of species from their narrow centers of origin, intraspecific differentiation, and contact zones between differentiated population systems. Special attention is given to the breakdown of cohesion among populations by reproductive and spatial barriers. Also discussed in this book are the ecological and genetic properties of small populations and fragmented population systems, highlighting the role of hybridization in the demise of species. It finally explores the longevity of species and the tempo of diversification, contrasting different groups of plants in these respects as well as in rates of chromosomal differentiation. This book provides a new synthesis of evolutionary biology and ecology. It examines species from their origins, then follows them through their expansion, differentiation and loss of cohesion, and decline and extinction. The stages in the lives of species are viewed through ecological and genetic theory, and topics typically addressed independently are woven into a continuous fabric. As the first synthetic treatment of the stages through which plant species pass, this book should be very useful for botanists, evolutionary biologists, and conservation biologists, as well as all broadly curious students of the biological sciences.

Sommaire

    • The premise and species concepts
    • Speciation: The Ecological Transition
    • Speciation: The Genetic Transition
    • The geographical scale of speciation
    • The geographical expansion of neospecies
    • Differentiation and the Breakdown of species unity
    • The decline and demise of species
    • The persistence and sorting of incipient species
    • Species duration and the tempo of diversification.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    21/06/2000
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    0-19-512729-3
  • EAN
    9780195127294
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    230 pages
  • Poids
    0.35 Kg
  • Dimensions
    15,5 cm × 23,3 cm × 1,7 cm

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Biographie de Donald-A Levin

Donald A. Levin is a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas. He has written extensively on many aspects of plant evolution, including speciation, natural selection, hybridization, the breeding structure of populations, and chromosomal change.

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