Time in ecology : a theoretical framework / Eric Post.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Post, Eric, author.

Series:

Monographs in population biology ; 61.

Monographs in Population Biology ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Philosophy.

Ecology.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production.Post uses insights from phenology—the study of the timing of life-cycle events—to present a theoretical framework of time in ecology that casts long-standing observations in the field in an entirely new light. Combining conceptual models with field data, he demonstrates how phenological advances, delays, and stasis, documented in an array of taxa, can all be viewed as adaptive components of an organism’s strategic use of time. Post shows how the allocation of time by individual organisms to critical life history stages is not only a response to environmental cues but also an important driver of interactions at the population, species, and community levels.To demonstrate the applications of this exciting new conceptual framework, Time in Ecology uses meta-analyses of previous studies as well as Post’s original data on the phenological dynamics of plants, caribou, and muskoxen in Greenland.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. A Framework for the Role of Time in Ecology

1. What Is Time?

2. Phenological Advance, Stasis, and Delay

3. Ecological Time

4. The Phenological Niche

5. The Phenological Community

6. Use of Time in the Phenology of Horizontal Species Interactions 107 Timing and Duration: Responses to Potentially Distinct

7. Use of Time in the Phenology of Vertical Species Interactions

8. Limitations and Extension to Tropical Systems

9. The More General Role of Time in Ecology

Appendix A. Online Resources of Relevance to Phenology

Appendix B. Sources Used in the Meta- analysis in Chapter 2

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780691185491

0691185492

OCLC:

1083581664