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Macroecology, Concepts and Consequences. 2003. T. M. Blackburn and K. J. Gaston (Editors). Blackwell Publishing. Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 442 pp. This fascinating volume contains papers that attempt to answer some fundamental questions (corresponding to the Parts of the book) in ecological and historical biogeography or, as the editors put it, “a way of studying relationships between organisms and their environment that involves characterizing and explaining statistical patterns of abundance, distribution, and diversity” (p. xv). Some of those questions include issues on: 1. species relative abundance (Parts 1-3 and 6), 2. size and allometry (Parts 4 and 7), as well as 3. the likelihood of extinction (Part 5). Macroecology has important conceptual contributions to ecology and evolutionary biology, as well as practical implications for conservation biology.