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Author : Andrea Belgrano
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (839 download)
Download or read book The Role of Body Size in Multispecies Systems written by Andrea Belgrano and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Belgrano
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123864755
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Role of Body Size in Multispecies Systems written by Andrea Belgrano and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thematic volume represents an important and exciting benchmark in the study of integrative ecology, synthesizing and showcasing current research and highlighting future directions for the development of the field.
Author : Guy Woodward
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123969921
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Global Change in Multispecies Systems: Part I written by Guy Woodward and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field
Author : Timothy G. Barraclough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191066656
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Evolutionary Biology of Species written by Timothy G. Barraclough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct species is one of the main goals of evolutionary biology. However the existence of species is often taken for granted, and precisely what is meant by species and whether they really exist as a pattern of nature has rarely been modelled or critically tested. This novel book presents a synthetic overview of the evolutionary biology of species, describing what species are, how they form, the consequences of species boundaries and diversity for evolution, and patterns of species accumulation over time. The central thesis is that species represent more than just a unit of taxonomy; they are a model of how diversity is structured as well as how groups of related organisms evolve. The author adopts an intentionally broad approach, stepping back from the details to consider what species constitute, both theoretically and empirically, and how we detect them, drawing on a wealth of examples from microbes to multicellular organisms.
Author : Alan G. Hildrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464175
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems written by Alan G. Hildrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. The wide range of body sizes in ecological communities, from tiny microbes to large animals and plants, is emerging as the key to prediction. Based on the relationship between body size and features such as biological rates, the physics of water and the amount of habitat available, we may be able to understand patterns of abundance and diversity, biogeography, interactions in food webs and the impact of fishing, adding up to a potential 'periodic table' for ecology. Remarkable progress on the unravelling, describing and modelling of aquatic food webs, revealing the fundamental role of body size, makes a book emphasising marine and freshwater ecosystems particularly apt. In this 2007 book, the importance of body size is examined at a range of scales that will be of interest to professional ecologists, from students to senior researchers.
Author : Robert Henry Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521288866
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Ecological Implications of Body Size written by Robert Henry Peters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-03-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes in detail how the physical size of an organism affects its biology. Presents the largest single compilation of inter-specific size relations and instructs the reader on their comparison, combination, and criticism.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123983215
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Global Change in Multispecies Systems: written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0124172105
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Global Change in Multispecies Systems: written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. Topical and important reviews Interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field Topics include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology
Author : Eric R. Pianka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520248472
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Lizards written by Eric R. Pianka and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the diversity of lizards and their major adaptive features. The authors discuss the latest research findings and provide new hypotheses about lizard diversity.
Author : Joel E. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642837840
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Community Food Webs written by Joel E. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food webs hold a central place in ecology. They describe which organisms feed on which others in natural habitats. This book describes recently discovered empirical regularities in real food webs: it proposes a novel theory unifying many of these regularities, as well as extensive empirical data. After a general introduction, reviewing the empirical and theoretical discoveries about food webs, the second portion of the book shows that community food webs obey several striking phenomenological regularities. Some of these unify, regardless of habitat. Others differentiate, showing that habitat significantly influences structure. The third portion of the book presents a theoretical analysis of some of the unifying empirical regularities. The fourth portion of the book presents 113 community food webs. Collected from scattered sources and carefully edited, they are the empirical basis for the results in the volume. The largest available set of data on community food webs provides a valuable foundation for future studies of community food webs. The book is intended for graduate students, teachers and researchers primarily in ecology. The theoretical portions of the book provide materials useful to teachers of applied combinatorics, in particular, random graphs. Researchers in random graphs will find here unsolved mathematical problems.
Author : Peter C de Ruiter
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080460949
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Dynamic Food Webs written by Peter C de Ruiter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that trophic interactions drive patterns and dynamics at different levels of biological organization: dynamics in species composition, dynamics in population life-history parameters and abundances, and dynamics in individual growth, size and behavior. These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning. Dynamic Food Webs not only offers over 100 illustrations, but also contains 8 riveting sections devoted to an understanding of how to manage the effects of environmental change, the protection of biological diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources. Dynamic Food Webs is a volume in the Theoretical Ecology series. Relates dynamics on different levels of biological organization: individuals, populations, and communities Deals with empirical and theoretical approaches Discusses the role of community food webs in ecosystem functioning Proposes methods to assess the effects of environmental change on the structure of biological communities and ecosystem functioning Offers an analyses of the relationship between complexity and stability in food webs
Author : Andrea Belgrano
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198564821
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Aquatic Food Webs written by Andrea Belgrano and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Aquatic Food Webs' provides a current synthesis of theoretical and empirical food web research. The textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community, ecosystem, and theoretical ecology, in aquatic ecology, and in conservation biology.
Author : Angus D. Munro
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000714632
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Reproductive Seasonality in Teleosts written by Angus D. Munro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important publication provides, for the first time, a comprehensive review of knowledge of reproductive seasonality in teleosts. It addresses why a particular species should show such seasonality, and how environmental cues act as regulators to ensure that reproductive maturation and breeding occur at the optimum time. The book considers the ultimate factors responsible for the evolution of reproductive seasonality in fish. It reviews salient concepts of reproductive seasonality in mammals. This volume also includes a review of accumulated knowledge of the control mechanisms of salmonids, gasterosteids, temperate cyprinids, cyprinodonts and other brackish-water forms, and marine and tropical freshwater teleosts. This is a work of value to research scientists in the field of environmental physiology, reproductive biology, and comparative neuroendocrinology and endocrinology. In addition, it is relevant for institutions involved with aquaculture and fisheries management. It is useful for post-graduate as well as undergraduate courses in fish biology and various related subjects.
Author : R. Norman Owen-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Megaherbivores written by R. Norman Owen-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercedes Pascual
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195188165
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Ecological Networks written by Mercedes Pascual and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food webs are one of the most useful, and challenging, objects of study in ecology. These networks of predator-prey interactions, conjured in Darwin's image of a "tangled bank," provide a paradigmatic example of complex adaptive systems. This book is based on a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions, food web theory, structure and dynamics. The book explores the boundaries of what is known of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks and will define directions for future developments in this field.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Polish Journal of Ecology written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107182115
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Food Webs written by John C. Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new approaches to studying food webs, using practical and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions.
