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" Biology of Rarity : "
M B Usher
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BL
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775910
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b595906
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M B Usher
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Biology of Rarity : : Causes and consequences of rarecommon differences.\ M B Usher
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012
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(290 pages)
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9401158746
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: 9789401158749
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Front ; Contents; Contributors; Preface; PART ONE: RARITY AND RARE-COMMON DIFFERENCES; 1 Introduction: on the causes and consequences of rare-common differences; Rare-com. mon differences: an overVIew; 3 What is rarity?; 4 Who is rare? Artefacts and complexities of rarity determination; PART TWO: MECHANISMS CREATING RAREƯCOMMON DIFFERENCES; 5 Who gets the short bits of the broken stick?; 6 Speciation and rarity: separating cause from consequence; 7 How do rare species avoid extinction? A paleontological view; 8 Extinction risk and rarity on an ecological timescale. 9 Population biology and rarity: on the complexity of density dependence in insect-plant interactions10 Genetic consequences of different patterns of distribution and abundance; 11 Evolved consequences of rarity; 12 Rarity and evolution: some theoretical considerations; PART THREE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS; 13 Predicting and understanding rarity: the comparative approach; 14 Concluding comments; Index.
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Evolution (Biology)
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B F J Manly
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D L DeAngelis
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M B Usher
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