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Theoretical ecology : principles and applications / edited by Robert M. May and Angela R. McLean.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 257 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Theoretical Ecology provides a succinct, up-to-date overview of the field set in the context of applications, thereby bridging the traditional division of theory and practice. It describes the recent advances in our understanding of how interacting populations of plants and animals change over time and space, in response to natural or human-created disturbance. In an integrated way, initial chapters give an account of the basic principles governing the structure, function, and temporal and spatial dynamics of populations and communities of plants and animals. Later chapters outline applications of these ideas to practical issues including fisheries, infectious diseases, tomorrow's food supplies, climate change, and conservation biology.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How populations cohere: five rules for cooperation
- 3 Single-species dynamics
- 4 Metapopulations and their spatial dynamics
- 5 Predator-prey interactions
- 6 Plant population dynamics
- 7 Interspecific competition and multispecies coexistence
- 8 Diversity and stability in ecological communities
- 9 Communities: patterns
- 10 Dynamics of infectious disease
- 11 Fisheries
- 12 A doubly Green Revolution: ecology and food production
- 13 Conservation biology: unsolved problems and their policy implications
- 14 Climate change and conservation biology
- 15 Unanswered questions and why they matter
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-248) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191737-0
- 9786611160685
- 0-19-152619-3
- 1-281-16068-7
- 1-4294-7053-4
- OCLC:
- 476246307
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