Marine Macroecology
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Introduction
JON D. WITMAN AND KAUSTUV ROY
PART I: MACROECOLOGICAL PATTERNS IN THE SEA
1 Overview of Marine Biodiversity
JAMES W. VALENTINE
2 Plankton Populations and Communities
WILLIAM K . W. LI
3 Patterns in Deep- Sea Macroecology
CRAIG R. MCCLAIN, MICHAEL A . REX, AND RON J. ETTER
4 Spatial Patterns of Species Diversity in the Shallow Marine Invertebrates: Patterns, Processes, and Prospects
KAUSTUV ROY AND JON D. WITMAN
5 Macroecological Patterns among Marine Fishes
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON, PHILIP A . HASTINGS, AND D. ROSS ROBERTSON
6 Marine Algal Communities
BERNABÉ SANTELICES, JOHN J. BOLTON, AND ISABEL MENESES
PART II: PROCESSES UNDERLYING MACROECOLOGICAL PATTERNS
7 Plankton—Not So Paradoxical After All
SEAN NEE AND GRAHAM STONE
8 Basin- Scale Oceanographic Infl uences on Marine Macroecological Patterns
JAMES J. LEICHTER AND JON D. WITMAN
9 Dispersal and Geographic Ranges in the Sea
STEVEN D. GAINES, SARAH E. LESTER, GINNY ECKERT, BRIAN P. KINLAN, RAFE SAGARIN, AND BRIAN GAYLORD
10 Temperature and Marine Macroecology
ANDREW CLARKE
11 Macroecological Theory and the Analysis of Species Richness Gradients
SEAN R. CONNOLLY
12 Macroecological Changes in Exploited Marine Systems
DEREK P. TITTENSOR, BORIS WORM, AND RANSOM A . MYERS
PART III: EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO MARINE MACROECOLOGY
13 Experimental Marine Macroecology: Progress and Prospects
JON D. WITMAN AND KAUSTUV ROY
14 Latitudinal Gradients in Species Interactions
ERIC SANFORD AND MARK D. BERTNESS
15 The Subtidal Ecology of Rocky Coasts: Local- Regional-Biogeographic Patterns and Their Experimental Analysis
SEAN D. CONNELL AND ANDREW D. IRVING
Contributors
Index
“This book is a wonderful tour de force introduction to marine macroecology through environments and across taxa. It is aimed at students and established ecologists, and it should strongly remind us that small-scale experimental ecology is not the only way to do sound ecological science.”
Biological Sciences: Biology--Systematics | Conservation | Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Microbiology | Natural History | Paleobiology, Geology, and Paleontology | Physiology, Biomechanics, and Morphology
Earth Sciences: Oceanography and Hydrology | Paleontology
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