Nonequilibrium Ecology

Informationen zum Autor Klaus Rohde is Professor Emeritus at the University of New England, Australia. Klappentext Presents evidence to contradict the assumption of the 'balance of nature'. Zusammenfassung The idea that nature is in balance and is only occasionally disrupted by external influences is a central concept in biology. However! much evidence contradicts this assumption. Using evidence from fossil history! studies of plant and animal populations and communities! this book shows that nonequilibrium is more widespread than equilibrium. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Concepts and problems; 2. Nonequilibrium in communities; 3. Interspecific competition: definition and effects on species; 4. Interspecific competition: effects in communities and conclusion; 5. Non-competitive mechanisms responsible for niche restriction and segregation; 6. Patterns over evolutionary time, present mass-extinctions; 7. Some detailed examples at the population/metapopulation level; 8. Some detailed examples at the community level; 9. Some detailed biogeographical/macroecological patterns; 10. An autecological comparison: the ecology of aspidogastrea; 11. What explains the differences found? A summary, and prospects for an ecology of the future; acknowledgments; References.

Product details

• Authors: Klaus Rohde, Klaus (University of New England Rohde
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2006
• EAN: 9780521674553
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67455-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation; Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons; Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation; Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology