Macroevolutionary theory on macroecological patterns /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Price, Peter W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Macroevolution.
Ecology.
Macroévolution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Ecology
Macroevolution
Ökologie
Makroevolution
Fylogenese.
MACROEVOLUTION
ECOLOGY
DISTRIBUTION
ABUNDANCE
POPULATION DYNAMICS
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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