Contents

Preface

1. MacArthur and Wilson’s Radical Theory

2. On Current Theories of Relative Species Abundance

3. Dynamical Models of the Relative Abundance of Species

4. Local Community Dynamics under Ecological Drift

5. Metacommunity Dynamics and the Unified Theory

6. The Unified Theory and Dynamical Species-Area Relationships

7. Metapopulations and Biodiversity on the Metacommunity Landscape

8. Speciation, Phylogeny, and the Evolution of Metacommunity Biodiversity

9. Sampling, Parameter Estimation, and the Generality of the Unified Theory

10. Reconciling Dispersal-Assembly and Niche-Assembly Theories

Literature Cited

Index