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The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology & Biogeography

Door Ernst Mayr e.a.

Categorie	Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer	#364866-KG20
Titel	The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology & Biogeography
Auteur	Mayr, Ernst & Jared M. Diamond
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Delhi etc. : Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	0195141709
ISBN13	9780195141702
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some maps in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e. g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It sh... (Lees verder)ows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closelyrelated, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.
Pagina's	537
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 25,00

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