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How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system impact on biodiversity loss over the long term--not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale be dealt with by earth scientists? This volume brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology to answer this question.
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Considers how the pattern of human interaction with the ecosystem will impact biodiversity, not in our lifetimes but over the vast time scale earth scientists deal in. After an overview of the concept of biodiversity dynamics, specialists share perspectives from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology. About half the contributions examine phylogenetic turnover from populations through higher taxa; the rest are concerned with community turnover from populations through global diversity. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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