Stephen P.Hubbell is Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia and Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He is the author of more than one hundred papers in tropical plant ecology, theoretical ecology, and plant-animal interactions. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pew Scholar Award in Conservation and the Environment. He is Chairman of the National Council for Science and the Environment (formerly the Committee for the National Institute for the Encironment) and the inventor of Extinction: The Game of Ecology.
"Highly innovative and insightful. . . . Ideas are conveyed clearly
and the addition of summary points at the end of each chapter
facilitates assimilation.""---Richard T. Busing, Ecological
Engineering
"Hubbell's book is a very exciting one, deeply original, based on
extensive field data, and convincing in its 'simple' explanations
of many broad-scale patterns in biodiversity and biogeography. It
will probably cause controversies, but primarily stimulate further
research."---Gottfried Jetschke, Ecology
"[This] is a rich book about an idea that has the power to
re-produce generic patterns and that will be in the back of your
mind when you, again, try to make sense of the plethora of articles
on species diversity, abundance and distribution."---Carsten F.
Dormann, Basic and Applied Ecology
"A rich book about an idea that has the power to re-produce generic
patterns and that will be in the back of your mind when you, again,
try to make sense of the plethora of articles on species diversity,
abundance and distribution. . . . Once you start reading it, you
will find it not a page too long."---Carsten F. Dormann, Basic
Applied Ecology
"This is an important contribution to the development of a much
sought-after explanation of pattern and process in an increasingly
threatened global resource."---Michael E. Meadows, Environmental
Conservation
"Hubbell has produced a book for all those who think about how
communities are put together, even the not so mathematically
minded. . . . [It] is sure to influence how community ecology is
done for years to come."---Sandra Knapp, Biological Conservation
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