Editor: Mckinney, Michael L.; Editor: Drake, James A.
Hardback; Book
548 pages
Published: January 1999
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231104146

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 bedealt with by earth scientists? This volume brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology to answer this question.This text brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology and paleontology. It is divided into two parts, the first exploring turnover at the species level and the second investigating larger-scale community and ecosystem turnover.