The ecological consequences of environmental heterogeneity : the 40th symposium of the British Ecological Society, held at the University of Sussex, 23-25 March 1999
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The ecological consequences of environmental heterogeneity : the 40th symposium of the British Ecological Society, held at the University of Sussex, 23-25 March 1999
Blackwell Science, 2000
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The last decade has seen many important advances in the measurement and interpretation of the impacts of environmental heterogeneity upon organisms and ecological processes. Progress has been made at a range of scales of organization. Following a Symposium on the Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity, held in 1999, a team of experts has collaborated to produce this volume, which discusses the effects of environmental heterogeneity. It includes discussion of the effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on individuals, populations, communities and biodiversity, and of the management and conservation implications of environmental heterogeneity.
Table of Contents
- 1. The world is heterogeneous: ecological consequences of living in a patchy environment. A J A Stewart, E A John & M J Hutchings 2. Ecological heterogeneity: an ontogeny of concepts and approaches. J A Wiens 3. Generation of heterogeneity by organisms: creation, maintenance and transformation
- S T A Pickett, M L Cadenasso & C G Jones 4. Heterogeneity, diversity and scale in plant communities
- S D Wilson 5. Plant reponse to patchy soils
- A Fitter, A Hodge & D Robinson 6. The effects of heterogeneous nutrient supply on plant performance: a survey of responses, with special reference to clonal herbs M J Hutchings, jD K Wijesinghe & E A John 7. Plant competition in spatially heterogeneous environments B B Casper, J F Cahill & R B Jackson 8. Light heterogeneity in tropical rain forests: photosynthetic responses and their ecological consequences J R Watling & M C Press 9. Heterogeneity in plant quality and its impact on the population ecology of insect herbivory M D Hunter, R E Forkner & J N McNeil 10. Foraging ecology of animals in response to heterogeneous environments J S Brown 11. Habitat heterogeneity and the behavioural and population ecology of host-parasitoid interactions, H C J Godfray, C B Muller & A R Kraaijeveld 12. The effects of heterogeneity on dispersal and colonisation in plants M Rees, M Mangel, L Turnbull, A Sheppard & D Briese 13. Genetic variation and adaptation in tree populations D H Boshier & M R Billingham 14. Food webs and resource sheds: towards spatially delimiting trophic interactions M E Power & W E Rainey 15. Habitat destruction and extinctions: predictions from metapopulation models C Dytham 16. Environmental heterogeneity and species survival in degraded tropical landscapes R T Corlett 17. Ecological experiments in farmland conservation D W Macdonald, R E Feber, F Tattersall & P J Johnson 18. Environmental heterogeneity: effects on plants in restoration ecology J P Bakker 19. Concluding remarks: A review of some open questions J H Lawton.
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