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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (928 p.) , 1 halftones

ISBN: 9780226125534

Content: The classic papers that laid the foundations of modern ecology alongside commentaries by noted ecologists. The period of 1970 to 1995 was a time of tremendous change in all areas of ecology—from an increased rigor for experimental design and analysis to the reevaluation of paradigms, new models for understanding, and theoretical advances. Edited by ecologists Thomas E. Miller and Joseph Travis, Foundations of Ecology II includes facsimiles of forty-six papers from this period alongside expert commentaries that discuss a total of fifty-three key studies, addressing topics of diversity, predation, complexity, competition, coexistence, extinction, productivity, resources, distribution, abundance, and conservation. The result is more than a catalog of historic firsts; this book offers diverse perspectives on the foundational papers that led to today’s ecological work. Like this book’s 1991 predecessor, Foundations of Ecology edited by Leslie A. Real and James H. Brown, Foundations of Ecology II promises to be the essential primer for graduate students and practicing ecologists for decades to come

Note: Frontmatter , Contents , General Introduction , Part 1 Diversity and Predation , Introduction , Competition, predation, and the structure of the Ambystoma– Rana sylvatica community , Plant species diversity in a marine intertidal community: importance of herbivore food preference and algal competitive abilities , Species diversity gradients: synthesis of the roles of predation, competition, and temporal heterogeneity , Competition, disturbance, and community organization: the provision and subsequent utilization of space in a rocky intertidal community , Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs , Predator- mediated coexistence: a nonequilibrium model , Part 2 Competition, Coexistence, and Extinction , Introduction , The competitive structure of communities: an experimental approach with protozoa , Competitive exclusion , Resource competition between planktonic algae: an experimental and theoretical approach. , Taxonomic diversity of island biotas , Herbivores and number of tree species in tropical forests , Mechanisms of succession in natural communities and their role in community stability and organization , Maintenance of high diversity in coral reef fish communities , Tree Dispersion, Abundance, and Diversity in a Tropical Dry Fores , Part 3 Productivity and Resources , Introduction , Evolution of Phosphorus Limitation in Lakes , Paradox of Enrichment: Destabilization of Exploitation Ecosystems in Ecological Time , Grazing as an optimization process: grass- ungulate relationships in the Serengeti , Exploitation ecosystems in gradients of primary productivity , Regulation of lake primary productivity by food web structure , The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea , Ecosystem Succession and Nutrient Retention: A Hypothesis , Part 4 Incorporating Trophic and Spatial Structure , Introduction , Are food webs divided into compartments? , Complex trophic interactions in deserts: an empirical critique of food- web theory , Perturbation experiments in community ecology: theory and practice , Dynamics of regional distribution: the core and satellite species hypothesis , Sources, sinks, and population regulation , Effects of changing spatial scale on the analysis of landscape pattern , Part 5 Studies of Distribution and Abundance and the Rise of Conservation Ecology , Introduction , Regulation and stability of host- parasite population interactions: I. Regulatory processes , Qualitative analysis of insect outbreak systems: the spruce budworm and forest , Density dependence in time series observations of natural populations: estimation and testing , Complex dynamics in ecological time series , Population growth rates and age versus stage- distribution models for teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris Huds.) , A stage- based population model for loggerhead sea turtles and implications for conservation , Minimum Population Sizes for Species Conservation , Estimation of growth and extinction parameters for endangered species , Risks of population extinction from demographic and environmental stochasticity and random catastrophes , Part 6 Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology , Introduction , On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds I. Theoretical development , Optimal Foraging. the Marginal Value Theorem , Evidence for the existence of three primary strategies in plants and its relevance to ecological and evolutionary theory , Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense , Phylogenies and the comparative method , Historical effects and sorting processes as explanations for contemporary ecological patterns: character syndromes in Mediterranean woody plants , The measurement of selection on correlated characters , Constraints on chemical coevolution: wild parsnips and the parsnip webworm , An experimental test of the effects of predation risk on habitat use in fish , Variation in the costs and benefits of mutualism: the interaction between yuccas and yucca moths , Index , In English

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