Global Patterns and Drivers of Biodiversity
Biodiversity through Geologic Time
- Formation of early life
- Radiation events
- Historical extinctions
Global Patterns of Biodiversity
- How many species are there?
- Box 4.1 Case in Point: Discovery of a New Way to Make Life
- Box 4.2 Success Story: Rediscovery of an Extinct Species
- Box 4.3 Case in Point: Discovery of the Human Biome
- Realms, biomes, and ecoregions
- The most diverse ecoregions
- Biodiversity hotspots
- Latitudinal gradients
Drivers of Biodiversity
- Evolutionary drivers
- Ecological drivers
- Synopsis