Speciation and Patterns of Diversity

by Roger K. Butlin

Book Overview

The diversity of species of plants and animals is the net result of the origin of new species by the splitting of existing lineages (speciation) and the loss of species through extinction. Why there are more species in some groups of organisms, in some places or at some times depends on the balance of these processes. This book explores the interaction between mechanisms and rates of speciation and these patterns of biological diversity, and is unusual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521709636
• ISBN13: 9780521709637
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.6"