Community ecology /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Morin, Peter J. (Peter Jay), 1953-
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed.
• Θέματα: Biotic communities.; NATURE > Ecology.; NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.; SCIENCE > Environmental Science.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.; Electronic books.

All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations of natural history, statistical d...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Communities: Basic Patterns and Elementary Processes. Communities
• Competition: Mechanisms, Models, and Niches
• Competition: Experiments, Observations, and Null Models
• Predation and Communities: Empirical Patterns
• Models of Predation in Simple Communities
• Food Webs
• Mutualisms
• Indirect Effects
• Factors Influencing Interactions Among Species. Temporal Patterns: Seasonal Dynamics, Priority Effects, and Assembly Rules
• Factors Infl uencing Interactions Among Species. Habitat Selection
• Spatial Dynamics
• Large
• Scale, Integrative Community Phenomena. Causes and Consequences of Diversity
• Succession
• Applied Community Ecology
• Appendix: Stability Analysis.