Beschreibung:
This book provides a thoughtful and original reassessment of our understanding of plant speciation and extinction, by one of the leading workers on plant evolution. It is suitable for use in seminars mostly in departments of botany or plant sciences, and should also be read by workers interested in speciation mechanisms and ecological succession at the community and landscape levels.
The premise and species concepts; speciation - the ecological transition; speciation - the genetic transition; the geographical scale of speciation; the geographical expansion of neospecies; differentiation and the breakdown of species unity; the decline and demise of species; the persistence and sorting of incipient species; species duration and the tempo of diversification.