Exploring ecology and its applications : readings from American scientist

著者

• Kareiva, Peter M.

書誌事項

Exploring ecology and its applications : readings from American scientist

edited by Peter M. Kareiva

Sinauer Associates, c1997

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This collection of 27 articles, by leading researchers in the field, will make ideal supplementary reading for ecology or environmental science courses. It presents the major questions being asked by present-day ecologists and the methods being used to tackle these. Exploring Ecology and Its Applications introduces a richly rewarding literature.

目次

• The pattern of mammalian hibernation
• the ecology of temperate and tropical honeybee societies
• spider fights as a test of evolutionary game theory
• why male ground squirrels disperse
• foraging behaviour of true fruit flies
• clonal plant populations
• adaptive strategies of coral-reef invertebrates
• competition between two weeds
• parasitic infections as regulators of animal populations
• the emergence of new diseases
• the ecology of a new England salt marsh
• the tall-fescue endophyte
• population outbreaks in forest lepidoptera
• testing theories of island biogeography
• competition, scientific method, and Null modes in ecology
• intertidal zonation of marine vertebrates in sand and mud
• nonequilibrium determinants of biological community structure
• the structure of tadpole assemblages
• the ecology of the southern ocean
• the recovery of Spirit Lake
• the evolutionary potential of crop pests
• restoring the bald eagle
• biological invasion as global change
• the Faustian traits of the crown-of-thorns starfish
• the global carbon cycle
• plant migration and climate change
• the World after Rio.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA40079236
• ISBN:
  • 0878934146
• LCCN: 98014698
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Sunderland, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: 277 p.
• 大きさ: 28 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QH541.145
  • DC21 : 577
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Ecology