Coevolution—reciprocal evolutionary change in interacting species driven by natural selection—is one of the most important ecological and genetic processes organizing the earth's biodiversity: most plants and animals require coevolved interactions with other species to survive and reproduce. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution analyzes how the biology of species provides the raw material for long-term coevolution, evaluates how local coadaptation forms the basic module of coevolutionary change, and explores how the coevolutionary process reshapes locally coevolving interactions across the earth's constantly changing landscapes.
Picking up where his influential The Coevolutionary Process left off, John N. Thompsonsynthesizes the state of a rapidly developing science that integrates approaches from evolutionary ecology, population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, and molecular biology. Using models, data, and hypotheses to develop a complete conceptual framework, Thompson also draws on examples from a wide range of taxa and environments, illustrating the expanding breadth and depth of research in coevolutionary biology.
Author(s): John N. Thompson
Series: Interspecific Interactions
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 455
City: Chicago
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. The Framework of Coevolutionary Biology
1. The Overall Argument
2. Raw Materials for Coevolution I: Populations, Species, and Lineages
3. Raw Materials for Coevolution II: Ecological Structure and Distributed Outcomes
4. Local Adaptation I: Geographic Selection Mosaics
5. Local Adaptation II: Rates of Adaptationand Classes of Coevolutionary Dynamics
6. The Conceptual Framework: The Geographic Mosaic Theory of Coevolution
7. Coevolutionary Diversification
8. Analyzing the Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution
Part 2. Specific Hypotheses on the Classes of Coevolutionary Dynamics
9. Antagonists I: The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolving Polymorphisms
10. Antagonists II: Sexual Reproduction and the Red Queen
11. Antagonists III: Coevolutionary Alternation and Escalation
12. Mutualists I: Attenuated Antagonism and Mutualistic Complementarity
13. Mutualists II: The Geographic Mosaic of Mutualistic Symbioses
14. Mutualists III: Convergence within Mutualistic Networks of Free-Living Species
15. Coevolutionary Displacement
16. Applied Coevolutionary Biology
Appendix: Major Hypotheses on Coevolution
Literature Cited
Index
