The evolution of" niche breadth," or" niche width," was a more popular topic in the
evolutionary ecological literature of the 1960s and 1970s than it has been recently (109 …

▪ Abstract Comparative, quantitative biogeographic studies are revealing empirical patterns
of interspecific variation in the sizes, shapes, boundaries, and internal structures of …

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

There appears to be a general relationship between abundance and distribution that has
two parts. First, within species, population density tends to be greatest in the center of the …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

There has been increasing concern over declining global biodiversity due to
overexploitation and habitat destruction by humans, who now consume 20-40% of the …

A three-phase kinetic model with time-specific perturbations is used to describe large-scale
patterns in the diversification of Phanerozoic marine families. The basic model assumes that …

Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares
many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading …

Many benthic marine invertebrates develop by means of free-living, dispersive larval stages.
The presumed advantages of such larvae include the avoidance of competition for …