Author : Douglas John Levey
Publisher : CABI
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 085199525X
This book provides information on the historical and theoretical perspectives of biodiversity and ecology in tropical forests, plant and animal behaviour towards seed dispersal and plant-animal interactions within forest communities, consequences of seed dispersal, and conservation, biodiversity and management.
Author : S. Balachandar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1009184547
Dispersed multiphase flows are frequently found in nature and have diverse geophysical, environmental, industrial, and energy applications. This book targets a beginning graduate student looking to learn about the physical processes that govern these flows, going from the fundamentals to the state of the art, with many exercises included.
Author : Peter Deines
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832506798
Author : Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004140727
The present case studies on early modern travelers, dispersed often by unintended consequences of war, curiosity, economic or political reasons in the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, ask for what ́power(s) ́ and agency they still had, perhaps counterintuitively, abroad.
Author : General Electric Company. Center for Energy Systems
Publisher :
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Electric power-plants
ISBN :
Author : Jean Clobert
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191640360
Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to understanding how populations may persist. Dispersal Ecology and Evolution provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology, incorporating the very latest research. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species, and community levels are considered. Perspectives and insights are offered from the fields of evolution, behavioural ecology, conservation biology, and genetics. Throughout the book theoretical approaches are combined with empirical data, and care has been taken to include examples from as wide a range of species as possible - both plant and animal.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Data transmission systems
ISBN :
Author : N.C. Stenseth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401123381
4.1.1 Demographic significance Confined populations grow more rapidly than populations from which dispersal is permitted (Lidicker, 1975; Krebs, 1979; Tamarin et at., 1984), and demography in island populations where dispersal is restricted differs greatly from nearby mainland populations (Lidicker, 1973; Tamarin, 1977, 1978; Gliwicz, 1980), clearly demonstrating the demographic signi ficance of dispersal. The prevalence of dispersal in rapidly expanding populations is held to be the best evidence for presaturation dispersal. Because dispersal reduces the growth rate of source populations, it is generally believed that emigration is not balanced by immigration, and that mortality of emigrants occurs as a result of movement into a 'sink' of unfavourable habitat. If such dispersal is age- or sex-biased, the demo graphy of the population is markedly affected, as a consequence of differ ences in mortality in the dispersive sex or age class. Habitat heterogeneity consequently underlies this interpretation of dispersal and its demographic consequences, although the spatial variability of environments is rarely assessed in dispersal studies.
Author : Eugene D. Shchukin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1466567104
Physical-Chemical Mechanics of Disperse Systems and Materials is a novel interdisciplinary area in the science of the disperse state of matter. It covers the broad spectrum of objects and systems with dimensions ranging from nanometers to millimeters and establishes a fundamental basis for controlling and tuning the properties of these systems as w
Author : British Ecological Society. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521549318
Dispersal has become central to many questions in theoretical and applied ecology in recent years. In this volume a team of leading ecologists aim to provide the advanced student and researcher with a comprehensive review of dispersal and its implications for modern ecology.
