Evolution in Changing Environments Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB-2) / Richard Levins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levins, Richard.

Series:

Monographs in population biology ; 2.

Monographs in population biology ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetics, Population.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

3rd printing 1974, [transferred to digital printing].

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Preface to the Second Printing

Contents

1. On Theories and Models

2. Strategies of Adaption

3. The Theory of the Niche

4. The Species in Space

5. The Genetic System

6. From Micro-to Macro-Evolution

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Originally published: 1968.

ISBN:

9780691080628

0691080623

9780691209418

0691209413

OCLC:

1227051426