Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1 The general thesis......Page 13
THEORY AND HYPOTHESIS......Page 14
QUESTIONS......Page 16
THE CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS......Page 17
EARLY FIELD STUDIES......Page 21
DEMOGRAPHY AND LIFE TABLES......Page 31
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY......Page 37
AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON POPULATION DYNAMICS......Page 47
MACROECOLOGY......Page 54
PHYLOGENIES, BEHAVIORS, AND LIFE HISTORIES......Page 55
ADVANTAGES IN STUDYING GALL-INDUCING HERBIVORES......Page 60
THE HOST PLANT......Page 64
THE HERBIVORE......Page 67
OVIPOSITION AND PREFERENCE......Page 69
LARVAL PERFORMANCE......Page 73
THE PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINT......Page 76
THE ADAPTIVE SYNDROME......Page 77
RESOURCE VARIATION......Page 80
NATURAL ENEMIES......Page 90
LATERAL EFFECTS......Page 93
POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS......Page 96
ANALYSIS OF POPULATION DYNAMICS......Page 97
CONCLUSIONS......Page 99
5 The focal group – The common sawflies......Page 103
OTHER EUURA SPECIES......Page 104
OTHER SAWFLIES......Page 105
EXCEPTIONS......Page 107
ADAPTIVE RADIATION AND THE PHYLOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF EMERGENT PROPERTIES......Page 120
BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS......Page 131
NOTABLE POINTS......Page 134
6 Convergent constraints in divergent taxonomic groups......Page 137
THE GALL-INDUCING ARTHROPODS......Page 138
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF GALL-INDUCING INSECTS......Page 144
NON-GALLING ARTHROPODS......Page 147
NOTABLE POINTS......Page 155
7 Divergent constraints and emergent properties......Page 157
THE SPRUCE BUDWORM LIFE CYCLE AND BEHAVIOR......Page 158
APPLYING THE PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINTS HYPOTHESIS......Page 161
THE GENERAL CASE IN FOREST LEPIDOPTERA......Page 166
THE GENERAL CASE IN BUTTERFLIES......Page 171
Stick insects......Page 174
Orthoptera......Page 175
Homoptera......Page 178
Coleoptera......Page 184
Lepidoptera......Page 186
THE CONTINUUM FROM LATENT TO ERUPTIVE POPULATION DYNAMICS......Page 188
NOTABLE POINTS......Page 190
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SAWFLY FAMILIES......Page 194
EVOLUTION OF PROOVIGENESIS IN DIPRIONIDS......Page 200
TENTHREDINIDS ON CONIFERS......Page 202
DIFFERENT RESOURCES AND ADAPTIVE SYNDROMES......Page 205
NOTABLE POINTS......Page 206
9 The thesis applied to parasitoids, plants, and vertebrate taxa......Page 207
PARASITOIDS......Page 208
PLANTS......Page 214
PLANTS AND HIGHER TROPHIC LEVELS......Page 221
VERTEBRATE ANIMALS......Page 225
THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW OF POPULATION DYNAMICS......Page 232
A CHALLENGE TO THE ECOLOGICAL VIEW......Page 245
IS THERE A MACROEVOLUTIONARY PARADIGM?......Page 247
COMPONENTS OF THE MACROEVOLUTIONARY THEORY......Page 248
IS THE THEORY FALSIFIABLE?......Page 250
SYNTHESIS......Page 251
Glossary......Page 254
References......Page 258
Author index......Page 286
Taxonomic index......Page 291
Subject index......Page 299