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Metacommunities : spatial dynamics and ecological communities.
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ISBN: 0226350630 0226350649 9780226350646 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Until recently community ecology& a science devoted to understanding the patterns and processes of species distribution and abundance& focused mainly on specific and often limited scales of a single community. Since the 1970s, for example, metapopulation dynamics& studies of interacting groups of populations connected through movement& concentrated on the processes of population turnover, extinction, and establishment of new populations. 'Metacommunities' takes the hallmarks of metapopulation theory to the next level by considering a group of communities, each of which may contain numerous populations, connected by species interactions within communities and the movement of individuals between communities. In examining communities open to dispersal, the book unites a broad range of ecological theories, presenting some of the first empirical investigations and revealing the value of the metacommunity approach. The collection of empirical, theoretical, and synthetic chapters in 'Metacommunities' seeks to understand how communities work in fragmented landscapes. Encouraging community ecologists to rethink some of the leading theories of population and community dynamics, 'Metacommunities' urges ecologists to expand the spatiotemporal scales of their research.


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Parasitoid Population Biology

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Unsolved Problems in Ecology
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ISBN: 0691195323 9780691195322 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today. This diverse and thought-provoking collection of essays spans virtually all of the key subfields of the discipline, from behavioral and evolutionary ecology to population biology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, disease ecology, and conservation biology. These essays are intended to stoke curiosity, challenge prevailing wisdom, and provoke new ways of thinking about ecology in light of new technologies and unprecedented environmental challenges brought on by climate and land-use change. Authoritative and accessible, Unsolved Problems in Ecology is ideal for graduate students in the early stages of their scientific careers and an essential resource for seasoned ecologists looking for exciting new directions to take their research.Sheds light on modern ecology's most important and compelling open questionsFeatures thought-provoking contributions from more than two dozen world-class ecologistsCovers behavior, evolution, communities, ecosystems, resource management, and moreDiscusses ways to raise the financial and intellectual profile of the disciplineAn invaluable resource for graduate students as well as seasoned ecologists

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Ecology. --- Population biology. --- Coexistence of species. --- Ecosystem management. --- Biodiversity conservation. --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Biotic communities --- Ecosystems management --- Applied ecology --- Environmental management --- Nature conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Sympatry (Biology) --- Population biology --- Species --- Biology --- Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Conservation --- Management --- auto ecology. --- autoecology. --- conservation. --- ecological communities. --- environmental policy. --- environmentalism. --- food web structure. --- food webs. --- growth regulation. --- high dimensional trait space. --- individual-based data. --- interdependence and mutualism. --- intra-genomic variance. --- mating. --- mutation. --- natural resource management. --- population dynamics of complex life cycles. --- population dynamics. --- population size. --- scaling in ecology. --- soil biodiversity. --- species coexistence. --- species richness distribution. --- variance explicit ecology.

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