Living in a patchy environment
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Living in a patchy environment
Oxford University Press, 1990
Available at 17 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the effects of environmental heterogeneity (patchiness) in populations of plants and animals. In contrast to a once-prevailing view that environmental variation can be averaged-out over a population without losing any of the essential dynamics, the contributors to this volume explore various kinds of patchiness - in space, in time, in climatic conditions, in food and other resources, in exposure to predators and parasites - and find that such
heterogeneities often play a significant role in structuring large populations, especially in lessening the risk of total extinction.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Patchy environment - an overview
- 1. Starvation and predation in a patchy environment
- 2. The response of plants to patchy environments
- 3. Dynamic stability of a single-species population in a divided and ephemeral environment
- 4. Variance and patchiness in rates of population change - a planthopper's case history
- 5. Coexistence in a patchy environment
- 6. Population dynamics and community structure of parasitic helminths
- 7. Dung and carrion insects
- 8. Patchiness and community structure
- 9. Extinction of finite metapopulations in correlated environments
- 10. Conservation in a variable environment - the optimal size of reserves
- 11. Does interdemic group selection occur in commensal house mice (Mus domesticus)?
- 12. Sex determination and sex ratios in patchy environments
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