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Informationen zum Autor Peter Grubb is Professor of Ecology at the University of Cambridge. John Whittaker is Professor at the University of Lancaster. Klappentext This symposium volume is aimed at considering the most fruitful current approaches and technologies. Zusammenfassung In the light of the progress made in ecology and widening public recognition of the problems to be solved! the future looks very promising. This symposium volume is aimed at considering the most fruitful current approaches and technologies! determining the major obstacles and reviewing the most likely profitable lines of advance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Preface; Part I. Introduction; 1. Toward a more exact ecology: a personal view of the issues P. J. Grubb; Part II. Physiological Processes in Free-Living Organisms; 2. Gas exchange of plants in the field S. P. Long; 3. Telemetric recording of physiological data from free-living animals P. J. Butler; 4. Determination of respiration rates of free-living animals by the double-labelling technique D. M. Bryant; Part III. Control of Population Size; 5. Analysis of insect population dynamics W. W. Murdoch; 6. Control of population size in birds: the grey partridge as a case study G. R. Potts and N. J. Aebischer; 7. Mechanisms in plant population control E. Van Der Meijden; Part IV. Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology; 8. The reproductive ecology of plants and eusocial animals D. G. Lloyd; 9. Comparative studies in evolutionary ecology: using the data base P. H. Harvey and M. D. Pagel; 10. An experimentalists approach to the role of costs of reproduction in the evolution of life-histories L. Partridge; Part V. Interrelationships between Organisms; 11. Factors affecting the relative abundance of forest tree species H. H. Shugart and D. L. Urban; 12. Insect herbivory and plant defence theory P. J. Edwards; 13. Butterfly-ant mutualisms N. E. Pierce; Part VI. Ecosystem Ecology; 14. Energy flow and productivity in the oceans R. E. Ulanowicz; 15. Soils as components and controllers of ecosystem processes E. A. Paul; 16. Forest decline in central Europe: the unravelling of multiple causes G. H. M. Krause; 17. Water pollution and the management of ecosystems: a case study of science and scientist B. Moss; 18. Toward an exact human ecology M. Slesser; Indexes....
