9. Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. 1. Biodiversity Dynamics: Niche Preemption and Saturation in Diversity Equilibria 1
5. Part One. Phylogenetic Turnover: From Populations Through Higher Taxa
6. 2. Do Taxa Persist as Metapopulations in Evolutionary Time? 19
7. 3. Geographic Range Fragmentation and the Evolution of Biological Diversity 31
8. 4. Detecting Ecological Pattern in Phylogenies 51
9. 5. Testing Models of Speciation and Extinction with Phylogenetic Trees of Extant Taxa 70
10. 6. Dynamics of Diversification in State Space 91
11. 7. Diversification of Body Sizes: Patterns and Processes in the Assembly of Terrestrial Mammal Faunas 109
12. 8. The Role of Development in Evolutionary Radiations 132
13. 9. Evolutionary Turnover and Volatility in Higher Taxa 162
14. Part Two. Community Turnover: From Populations Through Global Diversity
15. 10. Scaling the Ecosystem: A Hierarchical View of Stasis and Change 187
16. 11. Nested Patterns of Species Distribution: Processes and Implications 212
17. 12. Equilibrial Diversity Dynamics in North American Mammals 232
18. 13. Scales of Diversification and the Ordovician Radiation 288
19. 14. Preston’s Ergodic Conjecture: The Accumulation of Species in Space and Time 311
20. 15. An Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis of Maximal Speciation 349
21. 16. Turnover Dynamics Across Ecological and Geological Scales 377
22. 17. Catastrophic Fluctuations in Nutrient Levels as an Agent of Mass Extinction: Upward Scaling of Ecological Processes? 405
23. 18. Scale-Independent Interpretations of Macroevolutionary Dynamics 430
24. References 451
25. Index 523