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Cultural Transmission and Evolution
A Quantitative Approach
Av L L Cavalli-sforza, Marcus W. Feldman
Häftad, 1981
793 kr
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A number of scholars have found that concepts such as mutation, selection, and random drift, which emerged from the theory of biological evolution, may also explain evolutionary phenomena in other disciplines as well. Drawing on these concepts, Professors Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman classify and …
Sex and Evolution
Av George Christopher Williams
Häftad, 1975
622 kr
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This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that …
Consumer-Resource Dynamics
Av William W. Murdoch, Cheryl J. Briggs m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
895 kr
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Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo …
Stability in Model Populations
Av Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi
Häftad, 2000
1619 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by such agencies as competition and predation--should grow geometrically. How is order in nature maintained in the face of the seemingly disorderly …
Mechanistic Home Range Analysis
Av Paul R. Moorcroft, Mark A. Lewis
Häftad, 2006
733 kr
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Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution of prey and competitors. However, our ability to understand the causes and consequences of animal home range patterns …
Evolutionary Ecology across Three Trophic Levels
Goldenrods, Gallmakers, and Natural Enemies
Av Warren G. Abrahamson, Arthur E. Weis
Häftad, 1997
989 kr
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In a work that will interest researchers in ecology, genetics, botany, entomology, and parasitology, Warren Abrahamson and Arthur Weis present the results of more than twenty-five years of studying plant-insect interactions. Their study centers on the ecology and evolution of interactions among a …
Spatial Ecology
The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions
Av David Tilman, Peter Kareiva
Häftad, 1998
989 kr
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Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. Although the ecological world is unavoidably spatial, there have been few attempts to determine how explicit …
Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography
Häftad, 2001
1682 kr
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Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context. Until now …
Adaptive Geometry of Trees
Häftad, 1971
528 kr
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Through use of the models Professor Horn has devised, plant ecologists, foresters, and botanists will be able to predict the growth and productivity of a forest, the invading and senile species in a forest, the effect of shade tolerance on forest succession, and similar questions.
Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects
Av George F. Oster, Edward O. Wilson
Häftad, 1979
793 kr
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In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the …
Ecological Detective
Confronting Models with Data
Häftad, 1997
947 kr
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The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help …
Niche Construction
The Neglected Process in Evolution
Av F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin N. Lala m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
895 kr
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The seemingly innocent observation that the activities of organisms bring about changes in environments is so obvious that it seems an unlikely focus for a new line of thinking about evolution. Yet niche construction--as this process of organism-driven environmental modification is known--has …
Metacommunity Ecology
Av Mathew A. Leibold, Jonathan M. Chase
Inbunden, 2017
682 kr
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Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology--such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity--with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has …
Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems
Av Ricard Solé, Jordi Bascompte
Häftad, 2006
844 kr
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Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural ecosystems and the simplicity of any example derived from Newtonian physics. Though ecologists have long been …
Communities and Ecosystems
Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components
Häftad, 2002
853 kr
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Most of the earth's terrestrial species live in the soil. These organisms, which include many thousands of species of fungi and nematodes, shape aboveground plant and animal life as well as our climate and atmosphere. Indeed, all terrestrial ecosystems consist of interdependent aboveground and …
Evolution in Changing Environments
Some Theoretical Explorations
Häftad, 1968
622 kr
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Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the …
Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics
Häftad, 1971
818 kr
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To show the importance of stochastic processes in the change of gene frequencies, the authors discuss topics ranging from molecular evolution to two-locus problems in terms of diffusion models. Throughout their discussion, they come to grips with one of the most challenging problems in population …
Populations in a Seasonal Environment
Häftad, 1972
622 kr
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Most organisms live in a seasonal environment. During their life cycles, some species face seasons of cold and heat, aridity and abundant rainfall, migration and stable residence, breeding and nonbreeding. Populations grow and decline as supplies of materials essential to their survival wax and …
Competition and the Structure of Bird Communities
Häftad, 1974
622 kr
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Professor Cody's monograph emphasizes the role of competition at levels above single species populations, and describes how competition, by way of the niche concept, determines the structure of communities. Communities may be understood in terms of resource gradients, or niche dimensions, along …
Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities
Häftad, 1975
682 kr
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Many animals regulate their population density by patterns of behavior that would be easy to explain if the forces of natural selection acted to optimize group properties. But Darwinian selection acts on individuals, not groups, and most simple theories have shown group selection to be too slow …
Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines
Häftad, 1977
793 kr
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Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines explores the origins and development of geographic variation, divergence, and speciation. In particular it is concerned with genetic divergence as it is usually found on continents, among groups of populations isolated only by distance. Although earlier …
Food Webs and Niche Space
Häftad, 1978
622 kr
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What is the minimum dimension of a niche space necessary to represent the overlaps among observed niches? This book presents a new technique for obtaining a partial answer to this elementary question about niche space. The author bases his technique on a relation between the combinatorial structure …
Dynamics of Arthopod Predator-Prey Systems
Häftad, 1978
1129 kr
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In this study of arthropod predador-prey systems Michael Hassell shows how many of the components of predation may be simply modeled in order to reveal their effects on the overall dynamics of the interacting populations. Arthropods, particularly insects, make ideal subjects for such a study …
Some Adaptations of Marsh-Nesting Blackbirds
Häftad, 1980
1420 kr
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The variety of social systems among the New World blackbirds (Family Icteridae) and the structural simplicity of their foraging environment provide excellent opportunities for testing theorics about the adaptive significance of their behavior. Here Gordon Orians presents the results of his many …
Evolutionary Biology of Parasites
Häftad, 1980
1420 kr
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In spite of the fact that parasites represent more than half of all living species of plants and animals, their role in the evolution of life on earth has been substantially underestimated. Here, for the first time within an evolutionary and ecological framework, Peter Price integrates the …
Resource Competition and Community Structure
Av David Tilman
Häftad, 1982
793 kr
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One of the central questions of ecology is why there are so many different kinds of plants and animals. Here David Tilman presents a theory of how organisms compete for resources and the way their competition promotes diversity. Developing Hutchinson's suggestion that the main cause of diversity is …
Theory of Sex Allocation
Häftad, 1982
1828 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of sex allocation from the standpoint of modern evolutionary theory. It shows how the determination of sex ratio, resource allocation to sperm versus egg within simultaneous hermaphroditism, and the evolution of sex reversal can he explained as …
Mate Choice in Plants
Tactics, Mechanisms, and Consequences
Av Nancy Burley, Mary F. Willson
Häftad, 1983
793 kr
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This book maintains that higher plants manifest some degree of sexual selection, and it begins to build a framework that unifies many features of plant reproduction previously considered unrelated. Reviewing evidence for sexual selection in plants, the authors discuss possible male-female …
Florida Scrub Jay
Demography of a Cooperative-Breeding Bird
Av Glen Everett Woolfenden, John W. Fitzpatrick
Häftad, 1985
1508 kr
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Florida Scrub Jays are an excellent example of a cooperative-breeding species, in which adult birds often help raise offspring not their own. For more than a decade Glen E. Woolfenden and John W. Fitzpatrick studied a marked population of these birds in an attempt to establish a demographic base …
Natural Selection in the Wild
Häftad, 1986
989 kr
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Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer still which discuss the problems of working with natural selection in the wild. These are the purposes of John Endler's book. In it, he discusses the …
