Description: 1 Species Diversity: Introduction to the Problem, Dolph Schluter and Robert E. Ricklefs Part I Local Patterns and Processes 2 The Maintenance of Species Richness in Plant Communities, David Tilman and Stephen Pacala 3 Environment and Trophodiversity, Peter Yodzis 4 Structure of Intertidal Assemblages in Different Locations: How Can Local Process be Compared?, Anthony J. Underwood and Peter Petraitis 5 How are Diversity and Productivity Related?, Michael L. Rosenzweig and Zvika Abramsky 6 Energy Supply and Patterns of Species Richness on Local and Regional Scales, David H. Wright, David J. Currie, and Brian A. Maurer Part II Coexistence at the Mesoscale 7 Ecology at the Mesoscale: The Influence of Regional Processes on Local Communities, Robert D. Holt 8 Species Interactions in Space, John F. McLaughlin and Jonathan Roughgarden 9 Local and Regional Regulation of Species-Area Relations: A patch-Occupancy Model, Hal Caswell and Joel E. Cohen 10 Three Explanations of the Positive Relationship between Distribution and Abundance of Species, Ilkka Hanski, Jari Kouki, and Antti Halkka 11 Experimental Biogeography: Interactions between Stochastic, Historical, and Ecological Processes in a Model Archipelago, Daniel Haydon, Ray R. Radtkey, and Eric R. Pianka Part III Regional Perspectives 12 Space, Time, and Man as Determinants of Diversity of Birds and Mammals in the Mediterranean Region, Jacques Blondel and Jean-Denis Vigne 13 Bird Diversity Components within and between Habitats in Australia, Martin L. Cody 14 Determinants of Diversity in Animal Communities of Arid Australia, Stephen R. Morton 15 Biodiversity in Australia Compared with Other Continents, Mark Westoby 16 Patterns of Diversity for the Insect Herbivores on Bracken, John H. Lawton, Thomas M. Lewinsohn, and Stephen G. Compton 17 Community Richness in Parasites of Some Freshwater Fishes from North America, John M. Aho and Albert O. Bush 18 Evidence for the Influence of Historical Processes in Co-occurrence and Diversity of Tiger Beetle Species, David L. Pearson and Steven A. Juliano 19 Pelagic Diversity Patterns, John A. McGowan and Patricia W. Walker 20 Global Patterns of Diversity in Mangrove Floras, Robert E. Ricklefs and Roger Earl Latham 21 Convergence and the Regional Component of Species Diversity, Dolph Schluter and Robert E. Ricklefs 22 Unsaturated Patters in Species Assemblages: The Role of Regional Processes in Setting Local Species Richness, Howard V. Cornell Part IV Historical and Phylogenetic Perspectives 23 Phylogenetic Determinants of Insect/Plant Community Diversity, Brian D. Farrell and Charles Mitter 24 Historical Ecology: Examining Phylogenetic Components of Community Evolution, Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah McLennan 25 Phylogenetic Patterns, Biogeography, and the Ecological Structure of Neotropical Snake Assemblages, John E. Cadle and Harry W. Greene 26 Continental Comparisons of Temperate-Zone Tree Species Diversity, Roger Earl latham and Robert E. Ricklefs 27 The Phanerozoic Evolution of Reef Diversity, Erle G. Kauffman and J. Al Fagerstrom 28 Historical Diversity Patterns in North America large Herbivores and Carnivores, Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Christine M. Janis 29 Fossil Communities: Compositional Variation at Many Time Scales, James W. Valentine and David Jablonski 30 Species Diversity: Regional and Historical Influences, Robert E. Ricklefs and Dolph Schluter

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