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Preface 1. The road ahead 2. Patterns in space 3. Temporal patterns 4. Dimensionless patterns 5. Speciation 6. Extinction 7. Evolution of the relationship between habitat diversity and species diversity 8. Species-area curves in ecological time 9. Species-area curves in evolutionary time 10. Paleobiological patterns 11. Other patterns with dynamic roots 12. Energy flow and diversity 13. A hierarchical dynamic puzzle References Index.
Michael L. Rosenzweig (1996) studied this question.