Author : Gimme H. Walter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1482214156
This book spells out the theoretical structure, methodology and philosophy of the science of autecology. The autecological approach focuses on the interactions of individual organisms (and their species-specific adaptations) with the spatio-temporal dynamics of their environment as a basis for interpreting patterns of diversity and abundance in nat
Author : J. L. Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521588027
This is a comprehensive textbook for A-level students and first-year undergraduates taking courses in biology, geography and Earth sciences.
Author : Robert L. Tate
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN :
This complete introduction to a growing field describes the methods available for analysis of the biological, chemical and physical data collected for autecological studies. It describes and analyzes a range of techniques, from improved in situ techniques to genetic engineering procedures and computer analysis, and discusses potential research in multi-species associations and soil, marine and freshwater habitats.
Author : Francoise Burel
Publisher : Science Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2003-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781578082148
This book is intended as a resource for students and researchers interested in developmental biology and physiology and specifically addresses the larval stages of fish. Fish larvae (and fish embryos) are not small juveniles or adults. Rather they are transitionary organisms that bridge the critical gap between the singlecelled egg and sexually immature juvenile. Fish larvae represent the stage of the life cycle that is used for differentiation, feeding and distribution. The book aims at providing a single-volume treatise that explains how fish larvae develop and differentiate, how they regulate salt, water and acid-base balance, how they transport and exchange gases, acquire and utilise energy, how they sense their environment, and move in their aquatic medium, how they control and defend themselves, and finally how they grow up.
Author : Colin Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1784711012
The process of firm-level adaptation and survival have historically been of great interest to researchers of firms. However, these researchers have previously been denied an ecological framework within which to study the processes through which individual firms respond to and indeed, modify their individual environments. This book remedies this situation, providing the first comprehensive introduction to organisational autecology, or, the study of individual firms and the environments they interact with and typically modify to ensure their survival. In addition to establishing the theoretical and philosophical foundations of organisational autecology, the empirical application of this new approach is demonstrated and its future application to the domain of organisational studies is contemplated.
Author : Klaus Rohde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1107310946
It is clear that nature is undergoing rapid changes as a result of human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries and urbanisation. What effects do these activities have? Are they disturbing equilibria in ecological populations and communities, thus upsetting the balance of nature, or are they enhancing naturally occurring disequilibria, perhaps with even worse consequences? It is often argued that large-scale fluctuations in climate and sea-levels have occurred over and over again in the geological past, long before human activities could possibly have had any impact, and that human effects are very small compared to those that occur naturally. Should we conclude that human activity cannot significantly affect the environment, or are these naturally occurring fluctuations actually being dangerously enhanced by humans? This book examines these questions, first by providing evidence for equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions in relatively undisturbed ecosystems, and second by examining human-induced effects.
Author : Roger Clark Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Phenology
ISBN :
Author : Antonietta Cherchi
Publisher : Mucchi Editore
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Stacey Dee Ostermann-Kelm
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sybille Haeussler
Publisher : Forestry Canada, 1990 [i.e. 1991]
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN :
This publication summarizes the autecological characteristics of 35 vegetation species and provides information on how they respond to various silvicultural treatments now in use on forest lands. Information used in this report was gathered in an extensive search of ecological, silvicultural, and botanical literature, most of which originates in western Canada or western US. Information is given on description, distribution and abundance, habitat, growth and development, reproduction, pests, effects on crop trees, response to disturbance or management, and wildlife and range of each species, listed alphabetically by scientific name.
