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The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species

The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species

Levin, Donald A.

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Ecology and Evolution

Botany & HorticultureEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0195127285
ISBN13: 9780195127287
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 4 2000
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Combining insights from observation, experimentation, and theory, The Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species offers a broad overview of species as dynamic entities that arise, have unique evolutionary histories, and ultimately go extinct. It begins with a review of species concepts and the exposition of a new concept; it then addresses plant speciation, the expansion of species from their narrow centers of origin, intraspecific differentiation, and contact zones between differentiated population systems. Special attention is given to the breakdown of cohesion among populations by reproductive and spatial barriers. Also, the ecological and genetic properties of small populations and fragmented population systems are discussed with a focus on the role of hybridization in the demise of species. It ends with an exploration of the longevity of species and the tempo of diversification, contrasting different groups of plants in these respects as well as in rates of chromosomal differentiation.

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