Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. Diversity As Data 1
5. Part I. Phanerozoic Diversity Trends
6. Chapter 1. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Clade Diversity Diagrams 11
7. Chapter 2. Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights 41
8. Chapter 3. Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification: An Analysis at the Species Level 97
9. Chapter 4. Real and Apparent Trends in Species Richness Through Time 129
10. Part II. Patterns of Faunal Expansion, Partitioning and Replacement
11. Chapter 5. Evolutionary Faunas and the Distribution of Paleozoic Marine Communities in Space and Time 153
12. Chapter 6. Classes and Adaptive Variety: The Ecology of Diversification in Marine Faunas Through the Phanerozoic 191
13. Chapter 7. Phanerozoic Tiering in Suspension-Feeding Communities on Soft Substrata: Implications for Diversity 255
14. Part III. Analytic Studies of Major Faunal Patterns and Events
15. Chapter 8. Nonequilibrium Model of Diversification: Faunal Turnover Dynamics 277
16. Chapter 9. Diversification Functions and the Rate of Taxonomic Evolution 311
17. Chapter 10. Marine Regressions and Mass Extinctions: A Test Using the Modern Biota 335
18. Chapter 11. Modeling the Biogeographic Regulation of Evolutionary Rates 355
19. Part IV. Diversity Profiles of Individual Clades
20. Chapter 12. Testing for Adaptive Radiation: The Ptychaspid (Trilobita) Biomere of the Late Cambrian 379
21. Chapter 13. Evolutionary Patterns Of Jurassic And Cretaceous Ammonites: An Analysis Of Clade Shape 399
22. Chapter 14. Biotic Diversity and Clade Diversity 419
23. Concluding Remark 425
24. Author Index 427
25. Subject Index 437