Pattern & Process in Macroecology - Softcover

Gaston, Kevin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632056533 ISBN 13: 9780632056538

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

Macroecology is the study of large-scale community structure and the influence this has on small-scale process. In recent years there has been a definite trend towards the large-scale approach, and this work is therefore timely and relevant. As John Lawton observes in a recent journal article, "To discover general patterns, laws and rules in nature, ecology may need to pay less attention to the 'middle ground' of community ecology, relying less on reductionism and experimental manipulation, but increasing research efforts into macroecology." - ("Oikos", 1999). The book is probably too advanced for the undergraduate student, and so the core market will lie with graduate and professional ecologists.

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Review

"...Gaston and Blackburn's book is an important step along this path - an authoritative
characterization of the status of this research programme in ecology, a thorough pattern-by-pattern analysis and a provocative statement on what macroecology is and what we should expect from it." Nature

About the Author

Kevin Gaston is the author of Pattern and Process in Macroecology, published by Wiley. Tim Blackburn is the author of Pattern and Process in Macroecology, published by Wiley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0632056533
• ISBN 13: 9780632056538
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392