Format:
1 Online-Ressource (430 Seiten)
Edition:
Second edition
ISBN:
9780192572868
Content:
An accessible introduction to community ecology which looks at 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
Content:
Cover -- Community Ecology -- Copyright -- Preface to 2nd Edition -- Preface to 1st Edition -- Acknowledgments to 2nd Edition -- Acknowledgments to 1st Edition -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1. Community ecology's roots -- What is a community? -- The ecological niche -- Whither competition theory? -- New directions -- PART I. The Big Picture: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Biodiversity -- CHAPTER 2. Patterns of biological diversity -- Assessing biological diversity -- Alpha, beta, and gamma diversity -- Patterns of biological diversity -- Area and species richness -- The distribution of species abundance -- Productivity and species richness -- The latitudinal diversity gradient -- A null model: geometric constraints and the "mid-domain effect" -- Ecological hypotheses: climate and species richness -- Historical hypotheses: the time-integrated area hypothesis and the concept of tropical niche conservatism -- Evolutionary hypotheses: do rates of diversification differ across latitude? -- Conclusion -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning -- Diversity and productivity -- Mechanisms underlying the diversity-productivity relationship -- Diversity, nutrient cycling, and nutrient retention -- Diversity and stability -- Temporal stability -- Diversity and invasibility -- Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality -- Unanswered questions (revisited) -- Multiple trophic levels -- Community assembly or species loss? -- Global extinction and local ecosystem functioning: is there a mismatch of spatial scales? -- The invasion paradox -- How important are diversity effects in nature? -- The two sides of diversity and productivity -- Conclusion -- Summary -- PART II. The Nitty-Gritty: Species Interactions in Simple Modules -- CHAPTER 4. Population growth and density dependence -- Exponential population growth
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Additional Edition:
9780198835851
Additional Edition:
9780198835868
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mittelbach, Gary G. Community ecology Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 9780198835868
Additional Edition:
9780198835851
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Synökologie
;
Demökologie
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