Advances in Ecological Research

Offers an analysis of how climate variability is influencing an Arctic ecosystem and how the Arctic ecosystems have inherent feedback mechanisms interacting with climate variability or change. This book provides research on the functioning of Arctic ecosystems. It discusses the complex perpetuating effects on Earth.

List of contents

1. Human and environmental factors influence soil faunal abundance-mass allometry and structure
2. Allometry of body size and abundance in 166 food webs
3. Modeling individual animal histories with multistate capture-recapture models
4. Model systems and the comparative approach in ecology: sustained research on stream communities
5. Empirical evidences of density-dependence in populations of large herbivores

Product details

• Assisted by: Hal Caswell (Editor), Caswell Hal (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.06.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780123749253
• ISBN: 978-0-12-374925-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Advances in Ecological Researc; Advances in Ecological Research
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Ecological science, the Biosphere