Cambridge Studies in Ecology – serie
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Cliff Ecology
Pattern and Process in Cliff Ecosystems
Av Douglas W. Larson, Uta Matthes m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1107 kr
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Cliffs are present in virtually every country on earth. The lack of scientific interest in cliffs to date is in striking contrast to the commonness of cliffs around the world and to the attraction cliffs have had for humans throughout history. Cliffs provide a unique habitat, rarely investigated …
Forest Dynamics and Disturbance Regimes
Studies from Temperate Evergreen-Deciduous Forests
Häftad, 2008
944 kr
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Temperate-zone forests have been shaped by fire, wind and grazing over thousands of years. This book provides a major contribution to the study of their dynamics by considering three important themes: • The combined influence of wind, fire and herbivory on the successional trajectories and …
The Ecology of Recently-deglaciated Terrain
A Geoecological Approach to Glacier Forelands
Häftad, 2008
1067 kr
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Glacier forelands provide a unique type of field laboratory for the study of landscape ecology. Their restricted physical size and the relatively simple ecosystems which they support allow comprehensive investigations to be carried out, but their particular attraction is the existence of terrain of …
Ecological Versatility and Community Ecology
Häftad, 2009
732 kr
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This book was first published in 1995, a time when, like today, there were mounting concerns that the management of our natural global heritage was failing to arrest the rapid loss of biodiversity. The problem may be traced to the extinction of enormous numbers of 'specialised' species, especially …
Adaptive Herbivore Ecology
From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments
Häftad, 2010
797 kr
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The adaptation of herbivore behaviour to seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modelled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive behaviour to their consequences for population dynamics and community …
The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms
Inbunden, 1985
1726 kr
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Mutualistic interactions between ants and plants involve rewards offered by plants and services performed by ants in a mutually advantageous relationship. The rewards are principally food and/or nest sites, and ants in turn perform a number of services for plants: they disperse and plant seeds; …
The Background of Ecology
Concept and Theory
Häftad, 1986
1563 kr
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The Background of Ecology is a critical and up-to-date review of the origins and development of ecology, with emphasis on the major concepts and theories shared in the ecological traditions of plant and animal ecology, limnology, and oceanography. The work traces developments in each of these …
The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms
Av Andrew James Beattie, H. J. B. Birks m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
585 kr
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Mutualistic interactions between ants and plants involve rewards offered by plants and services performed by ants in a mutually advantageous relationship. The rewards are principally food and/or nest sites, and ants in turn perform a number of services for plants: they disperse and plant seeds; …
Microbial Ecology
Organisms, Habitats, Activities
Av Heinz Stolp
Häftad, 1988
1156 kr
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The rapid expansion od industry and the excessive demands made on limited natural resources have caused genuine concern at all levels of society. In the past this concern has concentrated on plants and animals and their relationships with their environments, but now attention is also turning …
Climate and Plant Distribution
Av F. I. Woodward, H. J. B. Birks m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
895 kr
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The central thesis for plant ecology is that climate exerts the dominant control on the distribution of the major vegetation types of the world. This book sets out to examine this often neglected area in two ways. In the first part the author analyses the distribution of species in relation to …
The Ecology of Freshwater Phytoplankton
Häftad, 1984
939 kr
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This book deals with the lifestyles of phytoplankton, the microscopic plant life living in the open waters of lakes, ponds and rivers and makes frequent references to the phytoplankton of the sea. It reviews adaptations required of organisms to live their lives independently of solid surfaces and …
Multivariate Analysis in Community Ecology
Häftad, 1982
993 kr
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Ecologists are making increasing use of computer methods in analyzing ecological data on plant and animal communities. Ecological problems naturally involve numerous variables and numerous individuals or samples. Multivariate techniques permit the summary of large, complex sets of data and provide …
Physiological Ecology of Lichens
Häftad, 1985
667 kr
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This book was originally published in 1985. In the twenty years preceding publication very considerable advances were made in our understanding of the physiology and ecology of lichens and of the functional nature of the symbiosis between the algal and fungal partners. This book provides a critical …
Life Strategies of Succulents in Deserts
With Special Reference to the Namib Desert
Av Dieter J. von Willert, Benno M. Eller m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
553 kr
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Deserts provide a seemingly hostile environment in which plants can, nevertheless, survive and grow. This book, originally published in 1992, considers the ecological strategies adopted by desert succulents to overcome these problems. Much fresh data on the physiological ecology of succulent plants …
The Ecological Implications of Body Size
Häftad, 1986
1351 kr
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It is generally recognized that larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, and so on; but it is unusual to see these commonplace observations as a basis for scientific biology. A large number of empirically based relationships describe biological rates as simple functions of body …
The Ecology of the Nitrogen Cycle
Häftad, 1987
781 kr
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Many people learn the rudiments of the nitrogen cycle while at school, but the details of the various processes in the cycle are still not widely understood. Some of them are of great current interest, such as the use of nitrogen fixing crops to feed an increasing world population and the problems …
Spiders in Ecological Webs
Häftad, 1995
1025 kr
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As experimental organisms, spiders offer ecologists a unique opportunity to examine the concept of the ecological community and the role which field experimentation can play in evaluating theories of population and community ecology. In this book, David Wise provides a balanced critique of field …
Community Ecology and Salamander Guilds
Häftad, 1988
699 kr
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This informative book, first published in 1987, presents the theories of community ecology within the context of a natural example. The text describes and examines issues in community ecology and shows how research on salamanders has helped to solve some of the problems surrounding the theories. …
The Ecology of Fire
Inbunden, 1995
2508 kr
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Wildfires kill many animals, but are populations of animals affected? How do animals survive the passage of fire? Why do some tree species survive and others die in a fire? Do frequent fires cause changes in plant community composition? Answering questions such as these requires an understanding of …
The Ecology of Mycorrhizae
Av Michael F. Allen, H. J. B. Birks
Häftad, 1991
781 kr
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A great many terrestrial plants live in close association with fungi. The features of this association, which is known as mycorrhiza, are those of a mutualistic symbiosis. Almost all plants from mycorrhizae whereby the fungus provides soil resources to the plant in exchange for energy provided by …
The Terrestrial Invasion
An Ecophysiological Approach to the Origins of Land Animals
Av Colin Little, H. J. B. Birks m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
716 kr
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The theme of this book is the invasion of land by animal lines which originated in aquatic environments. It brings together physiological and ecological evidence to show both the likely routes taken out of the sea by the aquatic ancestors of terrestrial animals and the changes in structure and …
The Ecology of Fire
Av Robert J. Whelan, H. J. B. Birks
Häftad, 1995
1432 kr
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Wildfires kill many animals, but are populations of animals affected? How do animals survive the passage of fire? Why do some tree species survive and others die in a fire? Do frequent fires cause changes in plant community composition? Answering questions such as these requires an understanding of …
Fire and Vegetation Dynamics
Studies from the North American Boreal Forest
Av Edward A. Johnson, H. J. B. Birks
Inbunden, 1992
1416 kr
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It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a fire-dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any technical detail how forest fires produce effects on individual plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the causal connection between the behaviour of fire and …
Ecological Experiments
Purpose, Design and Execution
Av Nelson G. Hairston, H. J. B. Birks m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
1384 kr
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Ecological Experiments stresses the importance to ecology of field experiments, where variables are manipulated in order to collect data on specific hypotheses, as opposed to the more passive observational method. The book begins by introducing a series of ecological questions that can be addressed …
Fire and Vegetation Dynamics
Studies from the North American Boreal Forest
Av Edward A. Johnson, H. J. B. Birks m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
618 kr
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It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a fire-dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any technical detail how forest fires produce effects on individual plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the causal connection between the behaviour of fire and …
The Ecology of Recently-deglaciated Terrain
A Geoecological Approach to Glacier Forelands
Av John A. Matthews, H. J. B. Birks m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2492 kr
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Glacier forelands provide a unique type of field laboratory for the study of landscape ecology. Their restricted physical size and the relatively simple ecosystems which they support allow comprehensive investigations to be carried out, but their particular attraction is the existence of terrain of …
Riparian Landscapes
Inbunden, 1993
2182 kr
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Riparian Landscapes examines the ecological systems of streamside and floodplain areas from the perspective of landscape ecology. The specific spatial pattern of riparian vegetation is seen as a result of, and a control on, the ecological, geomorphological, and hydrological processes that operate …
Evolution and Ecology
The Pace of Life
Av K. D. Bennett, H. J. B. Birks
Inbunden, 1996
2084 kr
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The mechanisms of macroevolutionary change have long been a contentious issue. Palaeoecological evidence, presented in this book, shows that evolutionary processes visible in ecological time do not build up into macroevolutionary trends, contrary to Darwin's original thesis. The author discusses …
Evolution and Ecology
The Pace of Life
Av K. D. Bennett, H. J. B. Birks
Häftad, 1996
784 kr
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The mechanisms of macroevolutionary change have long been a contentious issue. Palaeoecological evidence, presented in this book, shows that evolutionary processes visible in ecological time do not build up into macroevolutionary trends, contrary to Darwin's original thesis. The author discusses …
Ecological Versatility and Community Ecology
Inbunden, 1995
2459 kr
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This book was first published in 1995, a time when, like today, there were mounting concerns that the management of our natural global heritage was failing to arrest the rapid loss of biodiversity. The problem may be traced to the extinction of enormous numbers of 'specialised' species, especially …
