Aspects of the Genesis and Maintenance of Biological Diversity

Carefully conceived and edited multi-authored volume ... what we are given here are the combined views of a wide range of biologists on some of the most interesting questions concerning biodiversity and approaches to answering those questions. * John N. Thompson, Washington State University, Heredity, 78 * This book is a unique collection of evolutionary and ecological perspectives in the study of biodiversity by some of the leading researchers in the field. Subject reviews, case-studies, and discussions of techniques are combined to produce a state-of-the-art book. * Ethology Ecology & Evolution 9:1997 * 'It is a very professional work. The authors know their stuff,...the academic debates are fascinating, and doubtless their resolution is imporatant.' * Clive Hambler, Biodiversity Letters: Vol.3, no.6, Nov.'96. *