Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Ecological speciation and its alternatives
1: What is ecological speciation?
2: Predictions and tests of ecological speciation
Part II: Components of ecological speciation
3: A source of divergent selection
4: A form of reproductive isolation
5: A genetic mechanism to link selection to reproductive isolation
Part III: Unresolved issues
6: The geography of ecological speciation
7: The genomics of ecological speciation
8: The speciation continuum: what factors affect how far speciation proceeds?
9: Conclusions and future directions
References
Index

About the Author

Patrik Nosil is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He research focuses on how new species form. His initial work on how new species of insects might form as they adapt to feeding on different types of host plants received wide-recognition, for example earning him the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. More recently, he has been employing a combination of both theoretical and empirical approaches to study the
types of genetic changes that occur in the genome as new species are formed.

Reviews

The book is effortless reading, rich in verbal and conceptual models, hardly any equations ... it provides for a springboard for future discovery: a must read for students of speciation at any stage of their career.
*Trends in Ecology and Evolution*