Foundations of Macroecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries

Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Macro of Macroecology / Felisa A. Smith, John L. Gittleman, and James H. Brown
Paper 1. J. H. Brown and B. A. Maurer (1989), Macroecology: The Division of Food and Space among Species on Continents, Science 243:1145–50 / Commentary by James H. Brown and Brian A. Maurer
Part One. Macroecology before Macroecology / Edited by James H. Brown, S. K. Morgan Ernest, and Ethan P. White
	Paper 2. O. Arrhenius (1920), Distribution of the Species over the Area, Meddelanden Från K. Vetenskapsakademiens Nobelinstitut 4:1–6 / Commentary by Ethan P. White
	Paper 3. R. A. Fisher, A. S. Corbet, and C. B. Williams (1943), The Relation between the Number of Species and the Number of Individuals in a Random Sample of an Animal Population, Journal of Animal Ecology 12:42–58 / Commentary by Ethan P. White
	Paper 4. C. B. Williams (1947), The Generic Relations of Species in Small Ecological Communities, Journal of Animal Ecology 16:11–18 / Commentary by Nicholas J. Gotelli
	Paper 5. G. E. Hutchinson and R. H. MacArthur (1959), A Theoretical Ecological Model of Size Distributions among Species of Animals, American Naturalist 93:117–25 / Commentary by S. K. Morgan Ernest
	Paper 6. L. R. Taylor (1961), Aggregation, Variance and the Mean, Nature 189:732–35 / Commentary by Ford Ballantyne IV
	Paper 7. B. K. McNab (1963), Bioenergetics and the Determination of Home Range Size, American Naturalist 97:133–40 / Commentary by James H. Brown and John L. Gittleman
	Paper 8. E. C. Olson (1966), Community Evolution and the Origin of Mammals, Ecology 47:291–302 / Commentary by Mark D. Uhen and Jessica Theodor
	Paper 9. R. W. Sheldon and T. R. Parsons (1967), A Continuous Size Spectrum for Particulate Matter in the Sea, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 24:909–15 / Commentary by S. K. Morgan Ernest
	Paper 10. M. L. Rosenzweig (1968), Net Primary Productivity of Terrestrial Communities: Prediction from Climatological Data, American Naturalist 102:67–74 / Commentary by S. K. Morgan Ernest
	Paper 11. H. L. Sanders (1968), Marine Benthic Diversity: A Comparative Study, American Naturalist 102:243–82 / Commentary by Andrew Clarke
Part Two. Dimensions of Macroecology
	Allometry and Body Size / Edited by Alistair Evans, Daniel P. Costa, Karl J. Niklas, Richard M. Sibly, and Felisa A. Smith
		Paper 12. T. A. McMahon (1973), Size and Shape in Biology, Science 179:1201–4 / Commentary by Richard M. Sibly and Karl J. Niklas
		Paper 13. T. Fenchel (1974), Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase: The Relationship with Body Size, Oecologia 14:317–26 / Commentary by Richard M. Sibly
		Paper 14. J. Damuth (1981), Population Density and Body Size in Mammals, Nature 290:699–700 / Commentary by Alistair Evans
		Paper 15. S. L. Lindstedt and W. A. Calder III (1981), Body Size, Physiological Time, and Longevity of Homeothermic Animals, Quarterly Review of Biology 56:1–16 / Commentary by Daniel P. Costa
		Paper 16. D. R. Morse, N. E. Stork, and J. H. Lawton (1988), Species Number, Species Abundance and Body Length Relationships of Arboreal Beetles in Bornean Lowland Rain Forest Trees, Ecological Entomology 13:25–37 / Commentary by Alistair Evans
		Paper 17. R. Å. Norberg (1988), Theory of Growth Geometry of Plants and Self-Thinning of Plant Populations: Geometric Similarity, Elastic Similarity, and Different Growth Modes of Plant Parts, American Naturalist 131:220–56 / Commentary by Karl J. Niklas
		Paper 18. J. H. Brown and P. F. Nicoletto (1991), Spatial Scaling of Species Composition: Body Masses of North American Land Mammals, American Naturalist 138:1478–1512 / Commentary by Felisa A. Smith
	Evolutionary Dynamics / Edited by Mark D. Uhen
		Paper 19. L. Van Valen (1973), A New Evolutionary Law, Evolutionary Theory 1:1–30 / Commentary by Matthew A. Kosnik
		Paper 20. R. K. Bambach (1983), Ecospace Utilization and Guilds in Marine Communities through the Phanerozoic, In Topics in Geobiology, edited by M. J. S. Tevesz and P. L. McCall, pp. 719–46. Plenum Press, New York. / Commentary by Andrew M. Bush
		Paper 21. R. W. Graham (1986), Response of Mammalian Communities to Environmental Changes during the Late Quaternary, In Community Ecology, edited by J. Diamond and T. J. Case, pp. 300–313. Harper and Row, New York. / Commentary by S. Kathleen Lyons
		Paper 22. D. Jablonski (1986), Background and Mass Extinctions: The Alternation of Macroevolutionary Regimes, Science 231:129–33 / Commentary by Michael Foote
		Paper 23. J. H. Brown and B. A. Maurer (1987), Evolution of Species Assemblages: Effects of Energetic Constraints and Species Dynamics on the Diversification of the North American Avifauna, American Naturalist 130:1–17 / Commentary by Douglas A. Kelt
		Paper 24. K. J. Gaston (1998), Species-Range Size Distributions: Products of Speciation, Extinction and Transformation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 353:219–30 / Commentary by David Storch
	Abundance and Distributions / Edited by Kevin J. Gaston, Christy M. McCain, and S. Kathleen Lyons
		Paper 25. S. J. McNaughton and L. L. Wolf (1970), Dominance and the Niche in Ecological Systems, Science 167:131–39 / Commentary by Brian J. McGill
		Paper 26. S. Anderson (1977), Geographic Ranges of North American Terrestrial Mammals, American Museum Novitates 2629:1–15 / Commentary by Christy M. McCain
		Paper 27. J. C. Bernabo and T. Webb III (1977), Changing Patterns in the Holocene Pollen Record of Northeastern North America: A Mapped Summary, Quaternary Research 8:64–96 / Commentary by John W. (Jack) Williams
		Paper 28. E. C. Pielou (1977), The Latitudinal Spans of Seaweed Species and Their Patterns of Overlap, Journal of Biogeography 4:299–311 / Commentary by Christy M. McCain
		Paper 29. D. Rabinowitz (1981), Seven Forms of Rarity, In The Biological Aspects of Rare Plant Conservation, edited by H. Synge, pp. 205–17. John Wiley and Sons, New York. / Commentary by Kevin J. Gaston
		Paper 30. I. Hanski (1982), Dynamics of Regional Distribution: The Core and Satellite Species Hypothesis, Oikos 38:210–21 / Commentary by S. Kathleen Lyons
		Paper 31. J. H. Brown (1984), On the Relationship between Abundance and Distribution of Species, American Naturalist 124:255–79 / Commentary by Christy M. McCain
	Species Diversity / Edited by Jessica Theodor, Alison G. Boyer, and David J. Currie
		Paper 32. R. M. May (1978), The Dynamics and Diversity of Insect Faunas, In Diversity of Insect Faunas, edited by L. A. Mound and N. Waloff, pp. 188–204. Royal Entomological Society of London Symposium 9. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford. / Commentary by Allen H. Hurlbert
		Paper 33. J. W. Valentine (1980), Determinants of Diversity in Higher Taxonomic Categories, Paleobiology 6:444–50 / Commentary by David Jablonski
		Paper 34. J. H. Brown (1981), Two Decades of Homage to Santa Rosalia: Toward a General Theory of Diversity, American Zoologist 21:877–88 / Commentary by Walter Jetz
		Paper 35. D. M. Raup and J. J. Sepkoski Jr. (1982), Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record, Science 215:1501–3 / Commentary by Jessica Theodor
		Paper 36. K. J. Niklas, B. H. Tiffney, and A. H. Knoll (1983), Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification, Nature 303:614–16 / Commentary by Peter Wilf
		Paper 37. D. H. Wright (1983), Species-Energy Theory: An Extension of Species-Area Theory, Oikos 41:496–506 / Commentary by David J. Currie
		Paper 38. K. P. Dial and J. M. Marzluff (1988), Are the Smallest Organisms the Most Diverse? Ecology 69:1620–24 / Commentary by Alison G. Boyer
		Paper 39. J. J. Sepkoski Jr. (1988), Alpha, Beta, or Gamma: Where Does All the Diversity Go?, Paleobiology 14:221–34 / Commentary by Peter Wagner
		Paper 40. G. C. Stevens (1989), The Latitudinal Gradient in Geographical Range: How So Many Species Coexist in the Tropics, American Naturalist 133:240–56 / Commentary by David J. Currie
	Methodological Advances / Edited by John L. Gittleman
		Paper 41. J. A. Wolfe (1971), Tertiary Climatic Fluctuations and Methods of Analysis of Tertiary Floras, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 9:27–57 / Commentary by Scott L. Wing
		Paper 42. D. M. Raup (1975), Taxonomic Diversity Estimation Using Rarefaction, Paleobiology 1:333–42 / Commentary by Andrew M. Bush
		Paper 43. E. F. Connor and E. D. McCoy (1979), The Statistics and Biology of the Species-Area Relationship, American Naturalist 113:791–833 / Commentary by Brian A. Maurer
		Paper 44. P. H. Harvey and G. M. Mace (1982), Comparisons between Taxa and Adaptive Trends: Problems of Methodology, In Current Problems in Sociobiology, edited by King’s College Sociobiology Group, pp.343–61. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. / Commentary by Tim M. Blackburn
		Paper 45. R. K. Colwell and D. W. Winkler (1984), A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography, In Ecological Communities: Conceptual Issues and the Evidence, edited by D. R. Strong Jr., D. Simberloff, L. G. Abele, and A. B. Thistle, pp. 344–59. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. / Commentary by Nicholas J. Gotelli
		Paper 46. J. Felsenstein (1985), Phylogenies and the Comparative Method, American Naturalist 125:1–15 / Commentary by T. Jonathan Davies
List of Contributors
Index