The Loom of Life Unravelling Ecosystems /

• Main Author: Schilthuizen, Menno (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.

How can thousands of tree species coexist in a patch of tropical rainforest where there seem to be just a handful of niches? Why does biodiversity boom at the equator and plummet at the poles? Questions like these are central to modern ecology, where the gap between the familiar "niche" an...

Table of Contents:

• Life in Little Worlds
• Leaky Buckets
• Hidden Riches
• No Niche Like Home
• Neutral by Nature
• In Splendid Isolation
• Ecology of Wildcards
• The Loom Of Life
• The Age of Atropos.