Time in Ecology : A Theoretical Framework [MPB 61] /
Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production.Post uses insights from phenology-the study of t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
61 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. A Framework for the Role of Time in Ecology
- 1. What Is Time?
- 2. Phenological Advance, Stasis, and Delay
- 3. Ecological Time
- 4. The Phenological Niche
- 5. The Phenological Community
- 6. Use of Time in the Phenology of Horizontal Species Interactions 107 Timing and Duration: Responses to Potentially Distinct
- 7. Use of Time in the Phenology of Vertical Species Interactions
- 8. Limitations and Extension to Tropical Systems
- 9. The More General Role of Time in Ecology
- Appendix A. Online Resources of Relevance to Phenology
- Appendix B. Sources Used in the Meta- analysis in Chapter 2
- References
- Index