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Online-Ressource (PDF-Dateien: XX, 240 S.)
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Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781118223246
Content:
In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote ""I think"" and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation - adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the science of ecology has yet to account for how contrasting evolutionary outcomes affect the ability of organisms to coexist in communities and to regulate ecosystem functioning. In this book Philip Grim
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Includes index
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The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems; Contents; Preface; Chapter Summaries; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Evolution and Ecology: a Janus Perspective?; Evolutionary biology; Ecology; The emergence of a science of adaptive strategies; Summary; 2: Primary Strategies: the Ideas; MacArthur's 'blurred vision'; The mechanism of convergence; trade-offs; The theory of r- and K-selection; CSR Theory; Summary; 3: Primary Adaptive Strategies in Plants; The search for adaptive strategies; Theoretical work; Measuring variation in plant traits: screening programmes
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Screening of plant growth ratesThe Integrated Screening Programme; Further trait screening; The application of CSR theory; Virtual plant strategies; Summary; 4: Primary Adaptive Strategies in Organisms Other Than Plants; The architecture of the tree of life; r, K and beyond K; Empirical evidence for three primary strategies in animals; The universal three-way trade-off; Mammalia (mammals); Aves (avian therapods); Squamata (snakes and lizards) (with notes on other extant reptile clades); Amphibia (amphibians); Osteichthyes (bony f?ishes); Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous f?ishes)
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Insecta (insects)Aracnida (spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks); Crustacea (crustaceans); Echinodermata (sea urchins, starfish, crinoids, sea cucumbers); Mollusca (snails, clams, squids); Annelida (segmented worms); Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, jellyfish, hydras, sea pens); Eumycota (fungi) (including notes on lichens); Archaea; Proteobacteria; Firmicutes; Cyanobacteria; Viruses; Extinct groups; Universal adaptive strategy theory - the evolution of CSR and beyond K theories; First steps towards a universal methodology; Summary; 5: From Adaptive Strategies to Communities; Plant communities
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Productive disturbed communitiesProductive undisturbed communities; Unproductive relatively undisturbed communities; Plant community composition; The humped-back model; Origins; Formulation; Independent confirmation and compatibility with new research; Species-pools, f?ilters and community composition; Evidence for the action of twin f?ilters; Additional mechanisms promoting diversity; Genetic diversity, intraspecific functional diversity and species diversity; Microbial communities; The effects of plant strategies on soil microbial communities; Facilitation in bacterial communities
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Coexistence in marine surface watersNovel techniques for investigating microbial adaptive strategies; Animal communities; Primary producers delimit animal diversity/productivity relationships; Twin f?ilters and animal community assembly; Adaptive radiation and community assembly; Summary; 6: From Strategies to Ecosystems; Back to Bayreuth; The Darwinian basis of ecosystem assembly; How do primary adaptive strategies drive ecosystem functioning?; The plant traits that drive ecosystems; The propagation of trait influences through food chains; Complicating factors; Ecosystem processes
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Dominance and mass ratio effects
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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ISBN 1118223276
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ISBN 9781118223260
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ISBN 9781118223277
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ISBN 9780470674826
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1002/9781118223246
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