Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics: 1992 (Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics)

Contents: Global Environmental Change: An Introduction; The Potential for Application of Individual-Based Simulation Models for Assessing the Effects of Global Change; Human Population Growth and Global Land-Use/Cover Change; Biological Invasions by Exotic Grasses, the Grass/Fire Cycle, and Global Change; Global Change and Coral Reef Ecosystems; Global Change and Freshwater Ecosystems; Global Changes During the Last 3 Million Years: Climatic Controls and Biotic Responses; Spatial Scales and Global Change: Bridging the Gap from Plots to GCM Grid Cells; Responses of Terrestrial Ecosystems to the Changing Atmosphere: A Resource-Based Approach; Natural Hybridization as an Evolutionary Process; The Nearly Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution; Artificial Selection Experiments; Gastropod Phylogeny and Systematics; Trace Fossils and Bioturbation: The Other Fossil Record; Behavioral Homology and Phylogeny; On Comparing Comparative Methods; Resampling Methods for Computation-Intensive Data Analysis in Ecology and Evolution; Phylogenetic Taxonomy; Population Viability Analysis; Definition and Evaluation of the Fitness of Behavioral and Developmental Programs