| Description |
xii, 945 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ecology and its Domain -- Part I. Organisms: -- Introduction -- The Match between Organisms and their Environments -- Conditions -- Resources -- Life and Death in Unitary and Modular Organisms -- Dispersal, Dispersion and Migration in Space and Time -- Part II. Interactions: -- Introduction -- Intraspecific Competition -- Interspecific Competition -- The Nature of Predation -- The Behaviour of Predators -- The Population Dynamics of Predation -- Decomposers and Detritivores -- Parasitism and Disease -- Symbiosis and Mutualism -- Part III. Three Overviews: -- Introduction -- Life-History Variation -- Abundance -- Manipulating Abundance: Killing and Culling -- Part IV. Communities: -- Introduction -- The Nature of the Community -- The Flux of Energy through Communities -- The Flux of Matter through Communities -- The Influence of Competition on Community Structure -- The Influence of Predation and Disturbance on Community Structure -- Food Webs -- Islands, Areas and Colonization -- Patterns in Species Richness -- Conservation and Biodiversity -- Glossary |
| Summary |
This book is about the distribution and abundance of different types of organism over the face of the earth, and about the physical, chemical but especially the biological features and interactions that determine these distributions and abundances. It deals explicitly with three levels of the biological hierarchy - the organisms, the populations of organisms, and the communities of populations |
| Analysis |
Ecology |
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Ecology |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 865-909 |
| Subject |
Ecology.
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| Author |
Harper, John L., author
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Townsend, Colin R., author
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| LC no. |
89037703 |
| ISBN |
0632023449 (paperback: Oxford) |
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0632023457 (paperback) |
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0865421110 (paperback: Boston) |
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