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1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations |
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Monographs in population biology ; [45] |
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Monographs in population biology ; 45.
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| Contents |
Community ecology lives -- The geometry of heterogeneity -- Scaling relationships for the consumption of resources -- Food, resources, and scale-dependent niches -- Size structure in ecological guilds -- Heterogeneity and patterns of species diversity -- Biodiversity conservation in fractal landscapes -- Testing the model -- Perspectives, caveats, and conclusions |
| Summary |
Understanding and predicting species diversity in ecological communities is one of the great challenges in community ecology. Popular recent theory contends that the traits of species are "neutral" or unimportant to coexistence, yet abundant experimental evidence suggests that multiple species are able to coexist on the same limiting resource precisely because they differ in key traits, such as body size, diet, and resource demand. This book presents a new theory of coexistence that incorporates two important aspects of biodiversity in nature--scale and spatial variation in the supply of limit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Ecological heterogeneity.
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Biodiversity.
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Biotic communities.
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Animal population density.
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Biodiversity
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Animal population density.
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Biodiversity.
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Biotic communities.
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Ecological heterogeneity.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400831685 |
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1400831687 |
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1282473115 |
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9781282473119 |
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1282935909 |
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9781282935907 |
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6612473118 |
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9786612473111 |
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9786612935909 |
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6612935901 |
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