From plant traits to vegetation structure : chance and selection in the assembly of ecological communities /

"Plant community ecology has traditionally taken a taxonomical approach based on population dynamics. This book contrasts such an approach with a trait-based approach. After reviewing these two approaches, it then explains how models based on the Maximum Entropy Formalism can be used to predict...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shipley, Bill, 1960-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Sujets:
Plant ecology.
Plant communities > Mathematical models.
Vegetation classification.
Vegetation surveys.
Écologie végétale.
Inventaires de la végétation.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Plant communities > Mathematical models
Plant ecology
Vegetation classification
Vegetation surveys
Pflanzenökologie
Mathematisches Modell
Botanical surveys
Botanical surveys.
Inventaires floristiques.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Playing with loaded dice
  • Population-based models of community assembly
  • Trait-based community ecology
  • Modeling trait-based environmental filters: Bayesian statistics, information theory and the maximum entropy formalism
  • Community dynamics, natural selection and the origin of community-aggregated traits
  • Community assembly during a Mediterranean succession
  • The statistical mechanics of species abundance distributions
  • Epilogue: traits are not enough.

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