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Note: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The Dimensions of the Problem: Background and Science -- 2 Communicating the Dynamic Complexities of Climate and Ecology: Species Invasion and Resource Changes -- 3 Climate Change and Plant Pathogen Invasions -- 4 Analysis of Invasive Insects: Links to Climate Change -- 5 Climate Change, Plant Traits and Invasion in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems -- Part II Case Studies -- 6 Non-native Species in Antarctic Terrestrial Environments: The Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activity -- 7 Synergies between Climate Change and Species Invasions: Evidence from Marine Systems -- 8 Ragweed in Eastern Europe -- 9 Climate Change and Alien Species in South Africa -- 10 Climate Change and 'Alien Species in National Parks': Revisited -- 11 Invasive Plants in a Rapidly Changing Climate: An Australian Perspective -- 12 Invasive Species of China and their Responses to Climate Change -- Part III Management: Detection and Prevention -- 13 Identifying Invasive Species in Real Time: Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System (EDDMapS) and Other Mapping Tools -- 14 Global Identification of Invasive Species: The CABI Invasive Species Compendium as a Resource -- 15 The Biogeography of Invasive Plants - Projecting Range Shifts with Climate Change -- 16 Identifying Climate Change as a Factor in the Establishment and Persistence of Invasive Weeds in Agricultural Crops -- 17 Assessing and Managing the Impact of Climate Change on Invasive Species: The PBDM Approach -- Appendix Distributed Maturation Time Model -- Part IV Management: Control and Adaptation -- 18 Climate, CO2 and Invasive Weed Management. , 19 Early Detection and Rapid Response: A Cost-effective Strategy for Minimizing the Establishment and Spread of New and Emerging Invasive Plants by Global Trade, Travel and Climate Change -- 20 Adapting to Invasions in a Changing World: Invasive Species as an Economic Resource -- Index -- Footnote -- Chapter 2.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. The Process of Adaptation -- 1. Adaptive Evolution -- 2. Natural Selection -- Part 2. The Ecological Genetics of Adaptation -- 3. Genes -- 4. Genomes -- 5. Coevolving Genomes -- 6. Conflicting Genomes -- Part 3. Variable Selection and Adaptation -- 7. Adaptive Variation -- 8. Recombination and Reproduction -- 9. Divergence and Selection across Environments -- 10. Local Adaptation -- Part 4. The Dynamics of Coadaptation -- 11. Coevolutionary Dynamics -- 12. The Geography of Traits and Outcomes -- 13. Experimental Evolution -- Part 5. Diversification -- 14. Ecological Speciation -- 15. Reticulate Diversification -- 16. Species Interactions and Adaptive Radiations -- 17. The Web of Life -- Part 6. Synthesis -- 18. Our Changing Perceptions -- 19. Conclusions -- Literature Cited -- Index.

Note: Intro -- 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.

Note: Cover -- Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean: Insights for Conservation -- Copyright -- Preface -- Old, new, borrowed, and blue -- The contribution of many -- A particular place, a singular history -- Final precisions before reading -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: A Mediterranean history -- The Mediterranean triptych -- Geological foundations -- Tertiary flora and climate -- A truly ancient flora -- Into the Miocene -- Messinian desiccation -- The return of the Mediterranean Sea -- The onset of the Mediterranean climate -- Quaternary climate oscillations -- The beginnings of a human footprint -- Climate warming and human activities -- Fire -- Towards the contemporary mosaic landscape -- Phased history -- CHAPTER 2: The ecology and biogeographyof endemism -- Diversity and endemism -- Floristic origins: the Mediterranean confluence -- Historical biogeographic affinities -- Bioclimatic variation and landscape diversity -- Species diversity on islands -- The diversity of island contexts -- Species diversity in relation to island size and heterogeneity -- Diversity and endemism: divergent patterns -- An essay on endemism -- Of mountains and islands -- The terrestrial-aquatic interface -- Disjunct endemism and floristic affinities -- The persistence niche -- Ecological originality of peripheral populations -- Towards processes -- CHAPTER 3: The evolution of endemic plants -- Evolutionary processes in a Mediterranean setting -- Tertiary lineage diversification and paleo-endemism -- Early origins of east-west lineage divergence -- Tertiary endemics -- Diversification since the Tertiary -- Phased, spatial divergence -- Aegea and the East Mediterranean -- Central Mediterranean land bridges -- The West Mediterranean -- The Pillars of Hercules -- Footprints of glacial refugia -- Crisis . . . what crisis? -- CHAPTER 4: The evolution of a cultural heritage. , The onset of agriculture -- The initiation of domestication -- Trait evolution through domestication -- Out of the East -- Diversity and differentiation during dispersal -- Back to the wild -- Hand in hand -- A reservoir of resources -- CHAPTER 5: Plant traits and ecological dynamics -- The summer drought -- Summer drought and functional traits -- Trait evolution in relation to aridity -- Rainfall variability -- Towards persistence -- Dispersal dynamics -- Colonization and succession -- Ecological dynamics in terrestrial plant communities -- Ecological dynamics across the sea-land interface -- The role of fire in ecological dynamics and trait evolution -- Post-fire dynamics and resilience -- Traits and regeneration strategies -- Aromatic plants -- Abundance and chemical diversity -- Functions and interactions -- Variation and adaptation in relation to soils and climate -- Trait variation and ongoing climate change -- CHAPTER 6: Plant reproduction -- Flowers of the Mediterranean -- Flowering phenology -- Generalization and specialization in the pollination niche -- Contemporary and historical constraints -- The pollination mosaic -- Attracting pollinators . . . but avoiding herbivores -- Selection for specialization: flowers, fragrance, and fidelity -- Gender variation and selfing in hermaphrodites -- Gender polymorphism -- Heterostyly and stigma-height polymorphism -- Towards conservation -- CHAPTER 7: Conservation in the crossroadsof history -- Plant evolution and the conservation dialogue -- An ever-growing human footprint -- Landscape change and vulnerability -- Habitat fragmentation -- Interactions lost -- Species conservation: from priorities to recovery -- Setting priorities -- Stimulating species recovery -- Protected areas -- Key biodiversity areas can be small -- The need for complementarity -- The conservation of evolutionary potential. , Diversity and differentiation in endemic species -- Conservation in a persistence niche -- Population diversity and ecological transitions -- The originality of peripheral populations -- Hybridization -- From current rarity to an evolutionary future -- CHAPTER 8: One of five -- Two per cent -- Common climates, striking similarities -- A particular place, a singular history -- Five biodiversity hotspots -- CHAPTER 9: Science and nature in a changing Mediterranean world -- Homer's warning -- Climate change -- Can we include evolutionary potential in the conservation dialogue? -- From rarity to dynamics and change -- Should we assist migration and colonization? -- Ongoing landscape dynamics -- From a low-intensity footprint to unmanaged dynamics -- Conservation in a cultural landscape -- Conservation in a landscape of vulnerability -- Towards ecological solidarity -- Costs and collaboration -- From ecological interdependency to solidarity -- Final words -- Bibliography -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Evolutionary Ecology, Interaction, and Coevolution -- 2. Parasitism, Grazing, and Predation -- 3. Competition and Coevolution -- 4. Antagonism and Mutualism -- 5. Life Histories, Habitat, and Mutualism -- 6. Evolution of Mutual Dependence -- 7. Interaction and Speciation -- 8. The Interaction Structure of Communities -- References -- Index.