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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Darwinian ecology -- 1.1. Darwin's explanation for the emergence and maintenance of diversity -- 1.2. The Darwinian principles of ecology -- 1.3. Dynamics explains patterns and structures -- TBox 1.1 Derivatives: from speed to growth rate -- 1.3.1. Regulating feedback in a vessel -- TBox 1.2 Dynamical systems, self-regulation, and linearization -- TBox 1.3 Timescale separation -- 1.3.2. Population regulation -- Note 1.1 Murphy's rule for the identification of regulating variables -- 1.3.3. Fitness and population growth of reproductive units -- 2. Sources and treatment of complexity -- 2.1. Stochasticity of individual life histories -- TBox 2.1 Discrete and continuous descriptions of a stochastic process -- 2.2. Individual states and population structures -- 2.3. Interactions between individuals -- TBox 2.2 Derivatives of functions of several variables -- 2.4.Complex dynamics |
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Note continued: 2.5. Environments changing in space and time -- 2.6. The complexity of communities -- 2.7. Linking theory and empirical data -- pt. II Exponential growth -- 3. Exponential growth of unstructured populations -- 3.1. The nature of exponential growth -- 3.2. The conditions for exponential growth -- TBox 3.1 Deterministic exponential growth of a large unregulated population -- TBox 3.2 Stochastic population growth in discrete time -- TBox 3.3 Exponential growth in continuous time -- 3.3. Further examples of exponential dynamics -- 4. Population structure and exponential growth -- 4.1. Specifying population structure -- 4.2. Population structure and life histories -- TBox 4.1 Life histories as Markov chains -- 4.3. Exponential growth of structured populations -- TBox 4.2 Unregulated population growth in two habitat patches -- TBox 4.3 How does the two-patch model behave? -- TBox 4.4 Reproductive value -- TBox 4.5 The two-patch situation with stochastic fluctuations |
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Note continued: 4.4. Decomposition of changes in growth rate -- TBox 4.6 How do structured populations and Markov chains behave in general? -- 5. Ecological tolerance and the distribution of species -- 5.1. The potential for exponential population growth and the response function -- 5.1.1. Body size and the potential for population growth -- 5.1.2. Growth potentials and ecological tolerance -- 5.2. Matching ecological tolerance and geographical distribution -- 5.2.1. Predicting distribution from tolerance -- TBox 5.1 Ecological tolerance and spatial distribution -- 5.2.2. Deducing tolerance from geographical distribution -- 5.3.Comparative studies of ecological tolerance -- pt. III Regulation of population growth -- 6. Growth regulation, feedbacks, and their dynamical consequences -- 6.1. The comparative stability of populations -- 6.1.1. The inevitability of population regulation -- 6.1.2. Density dependence and carrying capacity of the environment |
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Note continued: TBox 6.1 Relaxation time in the case of logistic growth -- 6.2. Site-regulated populations -- TBox 6.2 Population regulation by free sites: the Levins model -- 6.3. Positive interactions between individuals: the Allee effect and facilitation -- 6.4. Regulation by trophic interactions -- 6.4.1. Features of trophic interactions -- TBox 6.3 Functional response, numerical response, and R* -- 6.4.2. Resource-regulated population dynamics -- TBox 6.4 Trophic interactions: dynamics and regulation -- 6.4.3. Regulation of populations in trophic relation -- TBox 6.5 Description of multicomponent systems -- 6.4.4. Trophic chains and the consequences of exclusive resource limitation -- TBox 6.6 Top-down regulation -- 7.Competitive exclusion -- 7.1.Competitive exclusion and population regulation -- 7.1.1.Competitive exclusion and exponential growth -- TBox 7.1 Exponential dynamics of competitive exclusion -- 7.1.2. Pessimization principles for regulated populations |
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Note continued: 7.2. Allelic selection in diploid populations -- TBox 7.2 Competition between alleles in diploid populations -- 7.3. Spreading dynamics -- TBox 7.3 Dynamics of spreading -- 7.4. Environmental effects and the competitive exclusion principle -- 7.4.1.Competitive exclusion in fluctuating environments -- Note 7.1 Misconceptions in relation to the concept of competition -- 8. Trade-offs and adaptations -- 8.1. Constraints, trade-offs, and selection -- TBox 8.1 Constraints, trade-offs, and their dependence on the environment -- 8.2. Trade-off and optimization -- TBox 8.2 Optimization of reproductive effort -- 8.3. Optimal fecundity and balanced mortality -- TBox 8.3 Environmental modification of the optimal strategy -- Note 8.1 Balancing fecundity and r, K-selection -- 8.4. Primary adaptive strategies of plants in response to regulating factors -- Note 8.2 Division of labour in plants -- 9. Robust coexistence and population regulation |
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Note continued: 9.1. Robust coexistence and frequency-dependent selection -- TBox 9.1 Coexistence in the Lotka-Volterra competition model -- 9.2. Coexistence, population regulation, and trade-offs -- 9.2.1. Generalization of the competitive exclusion principle -- Note 9.1 Historical reflections on the competitive exclusion principle -- 9.2.2. Coexistence on two resources -- TBox 9.2 Tilman's model of coexistence -- TBox 9.3 Robustness of coexistence, impact, and sensitivity -- 9.2.3. Asymmetric competition for space and for light -- TBox 9.4 Coexistence in a site-occupancy model -- 9.3. Coexistence and regulation in a food web context -- TBox 9.5 Predator-prey oscillations -- 10. Population regulation and the ecological niche -- 10.1. Diversification is an essential feature of life -- 10.2.A theory-based formal niche concept -- 10.2.1. Discrete and continuous niche spaces -- TBox 10.1 The niche space -- 10.2.2. Niche of alleles, clones, and species |
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Note continued: 10.2.3. Measures of niche segregation -- TBox 10.2 Competition and niche overlap -- 10.2.4. The niche of stuctured populations -- TBox 10.3 Niche segregation in a two-patch environment -- 10.2.5. Temporal niche -- TBox 10.4 Temporal niche segregation and storage effect -- TBox 10.5 Coexistence in cyclic environments -- 10.2.6. Niche segregation and evolution -- TBox 10.6 Evolutionary consequences of competition -- pt. IV Finiteness and diversity -- 11. Stochasticity due to finiteness -- 11.1. Viability of small populations -- TBox 11.1 Branching process: connecting individual and population-level stochasticity -- TBox 11.2 Stochastic individual contributions to population growth and demographic stochasticity -- TBox 11.3 Extinction time and diffusion -- 11.2. Loss of genetic diversity and its consequences -- TBox 11.4 Genetic drift: the Fisher -- Wright model and coalescence -- 11.3. Diversity patterns under neutral dynamics |
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Note continued: Note 11.1 Species -- abundance distributions -- 12. Diversity patterns and population regulation -- 12.1. Global structures and diversity patterns -- 12.1.1. Biomes -- 12.1.2. Global and regional species diversity -- Note 12.1 Measuring diversity -- 12.2. The effect of regional diversity on the diversity and function of local communities -- 12.3. Spatial patterns of community composition and regulation |
| Summary |
The first text to adopt a Darwinian approach to develop a universal, coherent and robust theory of ecology and provide a unified treatment of ecology and evolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 15, 2016) |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Philosophy.
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Population biology.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Population biology
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Ecology -- Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, author.
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Magyar, Gabriella, author.
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Czárán, Tamás, author.
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Meszéna, Géza, author.
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| ISBN |
9780191084140 |
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019108414X |
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9780191823787 |
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0191823783 |
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