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In the Light of Evolution: Volume II—Biodiversity and Extinction
Ammonoids, xv , 175 , 176 -177 , 184 , 185 , 186 , 197 , 199
Amphibians
chytridiomycosis, 2 , 35 -37 , 38 , 42 , 44
climate change and, 2 , 30 , 38 -41 , 42 , 44
conservation, 35 , 36 , 42
current extinction spasm, 2 , 28 , 30 , 37 , 40 , 42 , 43 -44 , 331
diversity geographically, 31 , 32 , 34 , 43 , 266
habitat modification, 2 , 30 , 37 , 40 , 41 , 42
invasive species and, 35 , 42
new species, 40 -41 , 42 , 43
number of recognized species, 31 , 42 , 68
parasites, 68 , 72
pollution and, 30 -31 , 35 , 332
Rana of Sierra Nevada, 33 -37
survival of mass extinctions, 2 , 28 -29 , 30 , 43
threatened and endangered species, 27 , 30 -33 , 34 , 41 -43 , 72
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II, 144
Angiosperms
classification, 248
elevational diversity gradients, 127 -147
Annelida, 66
Apicomplexa/Microspora, 66
Aquaculture, 11 , 23 , 24 , 25
Aquarium of the Pacific, 327
Arborescent lycopsids, 182
Archaea, 150 , 156 , 287
Archaeocyathids, 179
Architectural diversity, 171 , 179 -180 , 182 , 183 , 184 , 186 -187
Arctostaphylos , 254
Artiodactyls, 273
Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, iv , viii , xiii -xiv , xvi , 103 -104 , 147 , 166
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art, viii
Arthropleura , 175
Arthropoda, 66 , 174 , 181 , 319 -320 , 321
Asia
clade disjunctions, 256 , 258
species diversity, 259
Asteraceae (sunflower family), 248 -249 , 250 , 259
Atelopus spp., 37 , 39
Atlantic Ocean
sea floor spreading, 29 , 256
species declines and extinctions, 7 , 8 , 9 , 12 , 13 , 17 , 29 , 59
Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus ), 7
Audubon Society, 323
Australia.
See also Indo-Australian Archipelago
amphibian populations, 2 , 32 , 37 , 38
butterfly declines, 322
fishery collapse, 11
human impacts, 233 , 269
marsupials, 203
mass extinctions, 229 , 230 , 231 -232 , 233 , 269
megafauna biomass, 239
parks and preserves, 336
phytoplankton pigment concentration, 50
Aves. See Birds
Avise, John C., iv , xiii -xiv , 244 , 281 -296
Ayala, Francisco J., xiii -xiv
Ayala, Hana, 290
B
Back to Natives program, 326
Bacterial communities
abiotic filtering, 133 , 134 , 156
ecosystem services, 150
elevational diversity gradients in soil communities, 127 -147
Baltic Sea, 15
Baltica continental plate, 199
Barbados, coral reefs, 19
Barnosky, Anthony D., 168 -169 , 227 -241
Barro Colorado Island, 115 , 116 , 117
Bartlett, Troy, 320 -321
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis , 35 -36 , 38 , 42 , 44
Bats, 124 , 265 , 273
Bay of Fundy, 7 -8 , 11
Beach Bluffs Restoration Project, 327
Bees, 308 , 324 , 339
Beetles, 65 , 322 , 324
Behavioral and social complexity, 171 , 180 , 182 -183 , 184 , 294 -295
Beilschmiedia pendula , 116
Belding’s Savannah sparrow, 327
Belemnites, 185
Beringia, 75 , 229 , 230 , 231 -232 , 257 , 258
Bielby, Jon, 263 -279
Bignoniaceae, 115 , 117
Billfishes, 16 , 17
