Community ecology / Gary G. Mittelbach.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Copyright date: Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates , 2012Edition: First EditionDescription: xv, 400 pages : colours illustration ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780878935093
- 577.82
- QH541 .M526 2012
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Colección general | Biblioteca Yachay Tech | 577.82 M6851c 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 1 | Available | 005590 | |||
Colección general | Biblioteca Yachay Tech | 577.82 M6851c 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 2 | Available | 005591 | |||
Colección general | Biblioteca Jardín Botánico | 577.82 M6851c 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 3 | Available | 005592 |
includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Community Ecology's Roots -- PART I. THE BIG PICTURE: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Biodiversity -- Patterns of Biological Diversity -- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning -- PART II. THE NITTY-GRITTY: Species Interactions in Simple Modules -- Population Growth and Density Dependence -- The Fundamentals of Predator-Prey Interactions -- Selective Predators and Responsive Prey -- Interspecific Competition: Simple Theory -- Competition in Nature: Empirical Patterns and Tests of Theory -- Beneficial Interactions in Communities: Mutualism and Facilitation -- PART III. PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: Food Webs and Ecological Networks -- Species Interactions in Ecological Networks -- Food Chains and Food Webs: Controlling Factors and Cascading Effects -- PART IV. SPATIAL ECOLOGY: Metapopulations and Metacommunities -- Patchy Environments, Metapopulations, and Fugitive Species -- Metacommunities and the Neutral Theory -- PART V. SPECIES IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS:Ecology and Evolution -- Species Coexistence in Variable Environments -- Evolutionary Community Ecology -- Some Concluding Remarks and a Look Ahead.
Community Ecology is a book for graduate students, researchers, and advanced undergraduates seeking a broad, up-to-date coverage of ecological concepts at the community level. Community ecology has undergone a transformation in recent years, from a discipline largely focused on processes occurring within a local area to a discipline encompassing a much richer domain of study, including the linkages between communities separated in space (metacommunity dynamics), niche and neutral theory, the interplay between ecology and evolution (eco-evolutionary dynamics), and the influence of historical and regional processes in shaping patterns of biodiversity.
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