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Macroevolutionary theory on macroecological patterns /

"In Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns, Peter Price establishes a completely new vision of the central themes in ecology. For the first time in book form, the study of distribution, abundance, and population dynamics in animals is cast in an evolutionary framework. The book ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price, Peter W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The general thesis
  • Historical views on distribution, abundance, and population dynamics
  • The focal species : basic biology
  • The focal species : emergent properties
  • The focal group : the common sawflies
  • Convergent constraints in divergent taxonomic groups
  • Divergent constraints and emergent properties
  • Common constraints and divergent emergent properties
  • The thesis applied to parasitoids, plants, and vertebrate taxa
  • Theory development and synthesis.