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Introduction; Overview of Part 1: Evolution: Patterns and Processes; 1 Diversity in the past: comparing cladistic phylogenies and stratigraphy; 2 What can phylogenetic patterns tell us about the evolutionary processes generating biodiversity?; 3 New computer packages for analysing phylogenetic tree structure; 4 Is it ancient or modern history that we can read in the genes?; 5 Evolution of adaptive polymorphism in spatially heterogeneous environments; Overview of Part 2: Ecology: From populations to communities to ecosystems; 6 Local diversity: a problem with too many solutions; 7 The population dynamics of single host - multiparasitoid interactions; 8 Structural constraints on food web assembly; 9 Trophic interactions, nutrient supply, and the structure of freshwater pelagic food webs; 10 Linking communities and ecosystems: trophic interactions as nutrient cycling pathways; Overview of Part 3: Large scale diversity patterns and conservation; 11 Does climate cause the biodiversity gradient?; 12 Spatial covariance in the species richness of higher taxa; .n 13Biodiversity of parasites in relation to their life-cycle; 14 Biodiversity value and taxonomic relatedness; 15 Utilizing genetic information in plant conservation programmes; 16 Essential ingredients of real metapopulations, exemplified by the butterfly Plebejus argus.; Index

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