Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xv
4. Introduction: The Macro of Macroecology 1
5. 1. Macroecology: The Division of Food and Space among Species on Continents 5
6. Part One. Macroecology before Macroecology
7. Introduction 13
8. 2. Distribution of the Species over the Area (1920) 17
9. 3. The Relation between the Number of Species and the Number of Individuals in a Random Sample of an Animal Population (1943) 24
10. 4. The Generic Relations of Species in Small Ecological Communities (1947) 42
11. 5. A Theoretical Ecological Model of Size Distributions among Species of Animals (1959) 52
12. 6. Aggregation, Variance and the Mean (1961) 63
13. 7. Bioenergetics and the Determination of Home Range Size (1963) 68
14. 8. Community Evolution and the Origin of Mammals (1966) 78
15. 9. A Continuous Size Spectrum for Particulate Matter in the Sea (1967) 91
16. 10. Net Primary Productivity of Terrestrial Communities: Prediction from Climatological Data (1968) 99
17. 11. Marine Benthic Diversity: A Comparative Study (1968) 108
18. Part Two. Dimensions of Macroecology
19. Allometry and Body Size
20. 12. Size and Shape in Biology (1973) 154
21. 13. Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase: The Relationship with Body Size (1974) 159
22. 14. Population Density and Body Size in Mammals (1981) 170
23. 15. Body Size, Physiological Time, and Longevity of Homeothermic Animals (1981) 174
24. 16. Species Number, Species Abundance and Body Length Relationships of Arboreal Beetles in Bornean Lowland Rain Forest Trees (1988) 192
25. 17. Theory of Growth Geometry of Plants and Self- Thinning of Plant Populations: Geometric Similarity, Elastic Similarity, and Different Growth Modes of Plant Parts (1988) 207
26. 18. Spatial Scaling of Species Composition: Body Masses of North American Land Mammals (1991) 245
27. Evolutionary Dynamics
28. 19. A New Evolutionary Law (1973) 284
29. 20. Ecospace Utilization and Guilds in Marine Communities through the Phanerozoic (1983) 315
30. 21. Response of Mammalian Communities to Environmental Changes during the Late Quaternary (1986) 345
31. 22. Background and Mass Extinctions: The Alternation of Macroevolutionary Regimes (1986) 361
32. 23. Evolution of Species Assemblages: Effects of Energetic Constraints and Species Dynamics on the Diversification of the North American Avifauna (1987) 368
33. 24. Species- Range Size Distributions: Products of Speciation, Extinction and Transformation (1998) 387
34. Abundance and Distributions
35. Introduction 400
36. 25. Dominance and the Niche in Ecological Systems (1970) 403
37. 26. Geographic Ranges of North American Terrestrial Mammals (1977) 414
38. 27. Changing Patterns in the Holocene Pollen Record of Northeastern North America: A Mapped Summary (1977) 431
39. 28. The Latitudinal Spans of Seaweed Species and Their Patterns of Overlap (1977) 465
40. 29. Seven Forms of Rarity (1981) 480
41. 30. Dynamics of Regional Distribution: The Core and Satellite Species Hypothesis (1982) 495
42. 31. On the Relationship between Abundance and Distribution of Species (1984) 509
43. Species Diversity
44. Introduction 536
45. 32. The Dynamics and Diversity of Insect Faunas (1978) 539
46. 33. Determinants of Diversity in Higher Taxonomic Categories (1980) 558
47. 34. Two Decades of Homage to Santa Rosalia: Toward a General Theory of Diversity (1981) 567
48. 35. Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record (1982) 581
49. 36. Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification (1983) 586
50. 37. Species- Energy Theory: An Extension of Species- Area Theory (1983) 593
51. 38. Are the Smallest Organisms the Most Diverse? (1988) 606
52. 39. Alpha, Beta, or Gamma: Where Does All the Diversity Go? (1988) 613
53. 40. The Latitudinal Gradient in Geographical Range: How So Many Species Coexist in the Tropics (1989) 629
54. Methodological Advances
55. Introduction 648
56. 41. Tertiary Climatic Fluctuations and Methods of Analysis of Tertiary Floras (1971) 652
57. 42. Taxonomic Diversity Estimation Using Rarefaction (1975) 684
58. 43. The Statistics and Biology of the Species- Area Relationship (1979) 696
59. 44. Comparisons between Taxa and Adaptive Trends: Problems of Methodology (1982) 740
60. 45. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography (1984) 760
61. 46. Phylogenies and the Comparative Method (1985) 778
62. List of Contributors 795
63. Index 799