The Role of Body Size in Multispecies Systems
Author : Andrea Belgrano
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Andrea Belgrano
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2011
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Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0123864763
The general theme is being based around the ongoing European Science Foundation SIZEMIC Research Network, which has been running for several years. The network has focused on the role of body size in ecosystems and embraces a wide remit that spans all ecosystem types and a range of disciplines, from theoretical to applied ecology. Updates and informs the reader on the latest research findings Written by leading experts in the field Highlights areas for future investigation
Author : Andrea Belgrano
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0123864755
This thematic volume represents an important and exciting benchmark in the study of integrative ecology, synthesizing and showcasing current research and highlighting future directions for the development of the field.
Author : Guy Woodward
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0123969921
Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field
Author : Timothy G. Barraclough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191066656
'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct species is one of the main goals of evolutionary biology. However the existence of species is often taken for granted, and precisely what is meant by species and whether they really exist as a pattern of nature has rarely been modelled or critically tested. This novel book presents a synthetic overview of the evolutionary biology of species, describing what species are, how they form, the consequences of species boundaries and diversity for evolution, and patterns of species accumulation over time. The central thesis is that species represent more than just a unit of taxonomy; they are a model of how diversity is structured as well as how groups of related organisms evolve. The author adopts an intentionally broad approach, stepping back from the details to consider what species constitute, both theoretically and empirically, and how we detect them, drawing on a wealth of examples from microbes to multicellular organisms.
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Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0123983215
Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology
Author : Robert Henry Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1986-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521288866
Describes in detail how the physical size of an organism affects its biology. Presents the largest single compilation of inter-specific size relations and instructs the reader on their comparison, combination, and criticism.
Author : Alan G. Hildrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1139464175
Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. The wide range of body sizes in ecological communities, from tiny microbes to large animals and plants, is emerging as the key to prediction. Based on the relationship between body size and features such as biological rates, the physics of water and the amount of habitat available, we may be able to understand patterns of abundance and diversity, biogeography, interactions in food webs and the impact of fishing, adding up to a potential 'periodic table' for ecology. Remarkable progress on the unravelling, describing and modelling of aquatic food webs, revealing the fundamental role of body size, makes a book emphasising marine and freshwater ecosystems particularly apt. In this 2007 book, the importance of body size is examined at a range of scales that will be of interest to professional ecologists, from students to senior researchers.
Author : Órla Bríd McLaughlin
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Page : 268 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Predation (Biology)
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Ecosystems and their communities are very complex, often with thousands of plant and animal species coexisting together. The mechanisms which underlie this pattern of coexistence and stability in the face of environmental change remain elusive. For decades ecologists have wrestled with this complexity and the associated stability of communities and have been unable to reconcile the existence of complex communities in nature with the results of mathematical models which suggest that complex systems should not be stable. In order to understand how these communities are organised, it is essential to quantify the interaction strengths between species. Food webs have typically been found to be composed of a few strong and many weak interactions. The distribution of these predator-prey interaction strengths are known to confer stability to model food webs. This thesis documents the pattern of body masses within a forest floor food web, and quantifies the role of body size in determining the structure and topology of food webs in this ecosystem. The importance of predator and prey body sizes in determining the strength and arrangement of predator-prey interaction strengths is explored. The thesis integrates the use of laboratory and field based experiments, with large scale surveys of the food web under study, and employs a mixture of theoretical and empirical approaches to investigate the factors constraining food web structure and stability. Throughout the thesis, the easily measured species level trait, body size, is used to determine species contributions to ecosystem processes. Terrestrial invertebrate food webs are quantified and information on both the body size and abundance of component species are used to derive greater insight into the functioning of the community.
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Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0124172105
Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. Topical and important reviews Interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field Topics include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology