Table of Contents

1: The origins of ecological diversity
2: Detecting adaptive radiation
3: The progress of adaptive radiation
4: The ecological theory of adaptive radiation
5: Divergent natural selection between environments
6: Divergence and species interactions
7: Ecological opportunity
8: The ecological basis of speciation
9: Divergence along genetic lines of least resistance
10: The ecology of adaptive radiation

About the Author

Dolph Schluter is Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The recipient of several awards and fellowships, in 1997 he was given the President's Award of the American Society of Naturalists, and in 1999 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London. Professor Dolph Schluter Zoology Department University of British Columbia 6270 University Boulevard Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4 Canada 1-604-822-2387 (tel) 1-604- 822-2416 (fax)
schluter@zoology.ubc.ca

Reviews

[Schluter's] book is an ideal basis for graduate student seminar courses, and can both educate and spark spirited discussion ... finely crafted, deeply thoughtful. Evolution ... a scholarly work of great clarity and force of argument. It is essential reading for all students of evolution ... a book that will take its place near the ones by Dobzhansky, Lack, Mayr and Simpson that inspired it. Peter R. Grant, Quarterly Review of Biology ... in each decade, one book stands out in terms of its influence on the field of evolutionary biology ... Although only one-year old, this decade might have already produced its member of this pantheon: Dolph Schluter" The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation ... it will lead to new avenues of research and new ways of thinking about adaptive radiation. Jonathan B. Losos, Trends in Ecology and Evolution ... presents and impressively thorough evaluation of the empirical evidence that has accumulated since Simpson's snythesis ... an absolute "must read" for all graduate students in the fields of ecology and evolution and for anyone interested in evolutionary diversity. It will become a classic. Axel Meyer, Science ... should be read and regularly consulted by anybody interested in adaptive radiation, in natural selection, and in speciation. Konrad Bachmann, Plant Systematics and Evolution