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Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environ...

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Autor principal: Levins, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Monographs in Population Biology ; 94
Temas:
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology.
Adaptive Function.
Drosophila.
Levins, R.
breadth of niche.
coarse-grained environment.
concavity.
diapause.
diversity.
enzymes.
equilibrium.
fine-grained environment.
fitness set.
grain.
homeostasis.
inbreeding.
microhabitat.
mixed strategy.
mutation.
niche.
optimum conditions.
optimum.
parameter, sufficient.
phenotype.
polymorphism.
range of environment.
selection.
specialization.
tolerance.
uncertainty.
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Sumario:Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (132 p.)
ISBN:9780691209418
9783110442496
Acceso:restricted access

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