Why ecosystems matter : preserving the key to our survival / Christopher Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wills, Christopher, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology).

Biotic communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Biography/History:

Christoper Wills is Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Diego. Wills was the first to generate an enzyme with changed function through artificial selection, and to show the nature of the genetic change and the nature of the functional change. More recently, his research includes widespread negative density-dependent selection and how it maintains the diversity of tree species in tropical forests.

Summary:

Darwin gained a profound insight into how complex ecosystems evolve through the interactions of their species. Here, visiting some remarkable ecosystems, Christopher Wills explains the recent scientific advances that allow us to measure the evolutionary drivers powering their diversity and resilience, and can enable us to protect and restore them.

Contents:

How Darwin brought evolution and ecology together

Lost worlds

How ecosystems survive change

The genetic contents of the evolutionary cauldron

How entangled is an entangled bank?

Swift evolution in tiny entangled banks

The boundless potential of evolutionary entanglements

Benefiting from the bubbling evolutionary cauldrons

Venturing beyond the red queen

Tipping points

Preserving the world's evolutionary cauldrons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191981968

0191981966

OCLC:

1432241231