Unsolved Problems in Ecology /

Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today. This diverse and thought-provoking collecti...

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Weitere Verfasser: Dobson, Andrew (HerausgeberIn), Holt, Robert D. (HerausgeberIn), Tilman, David (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Schlagworte:
Biodiversity conservation.
Coexistence of species.
Ecology.
Ecosystem management.
Population biology.
auto ecology.
autoecology.
conservation.
ecological communities.
environmental policy.
environmentalism.
food web structure.
food webs.
growth regulation.
high dimensional trait space.
individual-based data.
interdependence and mutualism.
intra-genomic variance.
mating.
mutation.
natural resource management.
population dynamics of complex life cycles.
population dynamics.
population size.
scaling in ecology.
soil biodiversity.
species coexistence.
species richness distribution.
variance explicit ecology.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology.
biodiverzita
enviromentálna politika
elektronické dokumenty
ISBN:9780691195322
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Ecological Scaling in Space and Time: A New Tool in Plain Sight?
  • How Will Organisms Respond to Complex, Novel Environments?
  • Variance-Explicit Ecology: A Call for Holistic Study of the Consequences of Variability at Multiple Scales
  • Why Does Intra-Genotypic Variance Persist?
  • Population Dynamics of Species with Complex Life Cycles
  • What Determines Population Density?
  • Neglected Problems in Ecology: Interdependence and Mutualism
  • Ecology "through the Looking Glass": What Might Be the Ecological Consequences of Stopping Mutation?
  • Ecology and Evolution Is Hindered by the Lack of Individual-Based Data
  • Do Temperate and Tropical Birds Have Different Mating Systems?
  • Leaf Structure and Function
  • The Dimensions of Species Coexistence
  • Evolution, Speciation, and the Persistence Paradox
  • What Is the Species Richness Distribution?
  • Two Sides of the Same Coin: High Non-Neutral Diversity and High-Dimensional Trait Space in Pathogen Populations and Ecological Communities
  • What Regulates Growth across Levels of Organization?
  • The Ecosystem: Superorganism, or Collection of Individuals?
  • Untangling Food Webs
  • What Determines the Abundance of Lianas and Vines?
  • The World Beneath Us: Making Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Central to Environmental Policy
  • Ecology and Medicines
  • Six Wedges to Curing Disease
  • Collective Cooperation: From Ecological Communities to Global Governance and Back
  • Keeping the Faith: The Case for Very-Large Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas
  • How Does Biodiversity Relate to Ecosystem Functioning in Natural Ecosystems?
  • A Science Business Model for Answering Important Questions
  • Going Big
  • Index

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