Dispersal Ecology
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Author |
: Jean Clobert |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2012-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191640360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191640360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dispersal Ecology and Evolution by : Jean Clobert
Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to understanding how populations may persist. Dispersal Ecology and Evolution provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology, incorporating the very latest research. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species, and community levels are considered. Perspectives and insights are offered from the fields of evolution, behavioural ecology, conservation biology, and genetics. Throughout the book theoretical approaches are combined with empirical data, and care has been taken to include examples from as wide a range of species as possible - both plant and animal.
Author |
: British Ecological Society. Symposium |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 2002-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521549310 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521549318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dispersal Ecology by : British Ecological Society. Symposium
Dispersal has become central to many questions in theoretical and applied ecology in recent years. In this volume a team of leading ecologists aim to provide the advanced student and researcher with a comprehensive review of dispersal and its implications for modern ecology.
Author |
: Elena Gorb |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2003-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1402013795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781402013799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seed Dispersal by Ants in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem by : Elena Gorb
Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant species are known to utilize ant assistance to be planted. Myrmecochory is a very interesting and rather enigmatic form of mutualistic ant-plant associations. This phenomenon is extremely complex, because there are hundreds of ant species connected with hundreds of plant species. This book effectively combines a thorough approach to investigating morphological and physiological adaptations of plants with elegant field experiments on the behaviour of ants. This monograph is a first attempt at collecting information about morphology, ecology and phenology of ants and plants from one ecosystem. The book gives readers a panoramic view of the hidden, poorly-known interrelations not only between pairs of ants and plant species, but also between species communities in the ecosystem. The authors have considered not just one aspect of animal-plant relationships, but have tried to show them in all their complexity. Some aspects of the ant-plant interactions described in the book may be of interest to botanists, others to zoologists or ecologists, but the entire work is an excellent example of the marriage of these biological disciplines.
Author |
: Michael A. Steele |
Publisher |
: Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2021-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421439013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421439018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oak Seed Dispersal by : Michael A. Steele
Theimer, an accomplished ecologist.
Author |
: John C. Avise |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2000-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674666380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674666382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Phylogeography by : John C. Avise
Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. This book captures the conceptual and empirical richness of the field, and also the sense of genuine innovation that phylogeographic perspectives have brought to evolutionary studies.
Author |
: N.C. Stenseth |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401123389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9401123381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Dispersal by : N.C. Stenseth
4.1.1 Demographic significance Confined populations grow more rapidly than populations from which dispersal is permitted (Lidicker, 1975; Krebs, 1979; Tamarin et at., 1984), and demography in island populations where dispersal is restricted differs greatly from nearby mainland populations (Lidicker, 1973; Tamarin, 1977, 1978; Gliwicz, 1980), clearly demonstrating the demographic signi ficance of dispersal. The prevalence of dispersal in rapidly expanding populations is held to be the best evidence for presaturation dispersal. Because dispersal reduces the growth rate of source populations, it is generally believed that emigration is not balanced by immigration, and that mortality of emigrants occurs as a result of movement into a 'sink' of unfavourable habitat. If such dispersal is age- or sex-biased, the demo graphy of the population is markedly affected, as a consequence of differ ences in mortality in the dispersive sex or age class. Habitat heterogeneity consequently underlies this interpretation of dispersal and its demographic consequences, although the spatial variability of environments is rarely assessed in dispersal studies.
Author |
: Mathew A. Leibold |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2017-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400889068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400889065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Metacommunity Ecology by : Mathew A. Leibold
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity—with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has focused on evaluating the relative importance of distinct processes, with niche-based environmental sorting on one side and neutral-based ecological drift and dispersal limitation on the other. This book moves beyond these artificial categorizations, showing how environmental sorting, dispersal, ecological drift, and other processes influence metacommunity structure simultaneously. Mathew Leibold and Jonathan Chase argue that the relative importance of these processes depends on the characteristics of the organisms, the strengths and types of their interactions, the degree of habitat heterogeneity, the rates of dispersal, and the scale at which the system is observed. Using this synthetic perspective, they explore metacommunity patterns in time and space, including patterns of coexistence, distribution, and diversity. Leibold and Chase demonstrate how these processes and patterns are altered by micro- and macroevolution, traits and phylogenetic relationships, and food web interactions. They then use this scale-explicit perspective to illustrate how metacommunity processes are essential for understanding macroecological and biogeographical patterns as well as ecosystem-level processes. Moving seamlessly across scales and subdisciplines, Metacommunity Ecology is an invaluable reference, one that offers a more integrated approach to ecological patterns and processes.
Author |
: L. van der Pijl |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 171 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783642961083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3642961088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants by : L. van der Pijl
Reviewers from diverse branches of botany have exerted pressure to have chapters dealing with their field extended. If only to cover his incompetence, the author could not accede to these requests. Nor was it possible to respond to Eastern European urgings to extend the classificatory terminology, especially in ChapterX. He is grateful for indications of factual shortcomings in the chosen field, especially for those by Dr. RUDOLF SCHMID (Ann Arbor), who provided exten sive comment. L. VAN DER PIlL The Hague, spring 1972 Preface to the First Edition The work offered here is a companion volume to the work by K. FAEGRI and 1. VAN DER PIJL, Principles of Pollination Ecology, whim. deals with the preced ing phase of reproduction in plants. In the present work too, the emphasis is on principles and ecology. It is neither an enumeration of mechanisms, nor a compilation of cases. RIDLEY'S monumental work The Dispersal of Plants Throughout the World comprises 700 large pages of small print, and research has proceeded since then. Though this work is more than just a compilation and contains much insight and thoughts on principles in addition to reviews, its completeness hinders its use as a text book. As a reference work, it is unsurpassed and the writer made frequent use of it. The writer paid special attention to functional backgrounds for the use of taxonomists working with "characters" and to biosystematics at the macro-level.
Author |
: Robert S Gallagher |
Publisher |
: CABI |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2013-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780641836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780641834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeds, 3rd Edition by : Robert S Gallagher
The 3rd edition of Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities highlights the many advances in the field of seed ecology and its relationship to plant community dynamics that have taken place in recent years. The new edition also features chapters on seed development and morphology, seed chemical ecology, implications of climate change on regeneration by seed, and the functional role of seed banks in agricultural and natural ecosystems. The book is aimed at advanced level students and researchers in the fields of seed science, seed ecology and plant ecology.
Author |
: Douglas John Levey |
Publisher |
: CABI |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780851995250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 085199525X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seed Dispersal and Frugivory by : Douglas John Levey
This book provides information on the historical and theoretical perspectives of biodiversity and ecology in tropical forests, plant and animal behaviour towards seed dispersal and plant-animal interactions within forest communities, consequences of seed dispersal, and conservation, biodiversity and management.