Evolution in Changing Environments - Some Theoretical Explorations

Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.

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Richard Levins

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Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to lon

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• Authors: Richard Horn, Richard Levins, Levins Richard
• Assisted by: Simon Levin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.1968
• EAN: 9780691080628
• ISBN: 978-0-691-08062-8
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Series: Monographs in Population Biolo; Monographs in Population Biology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Environmental science, engineering and technology