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Nonequilibrium ecology /

"This book is unique in focusing on nonequilibrium aspects of ecology, providing evidence for nonequilibrium and equilibrium in populations (and metapopulations), in extant communities and in ecological systems over evolutionary time, including nonequilibrium due to recent and present mass exti...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rohde, Klaus, 1932-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Collection:Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Concepts and problems
  • Nonequilibrium in communities
  • Interspecific competition: definition and effects on species
  • Interspecific competition: effects in communities and conclusion
  • Noncompetitive mechanisms responsible for niche restriction and segregation
  • Patterns over evolutionary time, present mass extinctions
  • Some detailed examples at the population/metapopulation level
  • Some detailed examples at the community level
  • Some detailed biogeographical/macroecological patterns
  • An autecological comparison: the ecology of some Aspidogastrea
  • What explains the differences found? A summary, and prospects for an ecology of the future.