Metacommunities: spatial dynamics and ecological Communities
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2005
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Several leaves have small top-corner creases; tight, text clean. xi, [1], 513 p., illustrated [otob: 24] Contents: Metacommunities : a framework for large-scale community ecology / Marcel Holyoak [and others] -- The effects of spatial processes on two species interactions / Martha F. Hoopes, Robert D. Holt and Marcel Holyoak -- Food web dynamics in a metacommunity context : modules and beyond / Robert D. Holt and Martha F. Hoopes -- Metacommunities of butterflies, their host plants, and their parasitoids / Saskya van Nouhuys and Ilkka Hanski -- Inquiline communities in pitcher plants as a prototypical metacommunity / Thomas E. Miller and Jamie M. Kneitel -- Local and regional community dynamics in fragmented landscapes : insights from a bryophyte-based natural microcosm / Andrew Gonzalez -- Metacommunity structure influences the stability of local beetle communities / Kendi F. Davies [and others] -- Local interactions and local dispersal in a zooplankton metacommunity / Karl Cottenie and Luc De Meester -- Assembly of unequals in the unequal world of a rock pool metacommunity / Jurek Kolasa and Tamara N. Romanuk -- The world is patchy and heterogeneous! : trade-off and source-sink dynamics in competitive metacommunities / Nicholas Mouquet, Martha F. Hoopes and Priyanga Amarasekare -- Assembly dynamics in metacommunities / Richard Law and Mathew Leibold -- Scale transition theory for understanding mechanisms in metacommunities / Peter Chesson [and others] -- Applying scale transition theory to metacommunities in the field / Brett A. Melbourne [and others] -- Competing theories for competitive metacommunities / Jonathan M. Chase [and others] -- Assembling and depleting species richness in metacommunities : insights from ecology, population genetics, and macroevolution / Mark A. McPeek and Richard Gomulkiewicz -- Habitat selection, species interactions, and processes of community assembly in complex landscapes : a metacommunity perspective / William J. Resetarits, Jr., Christopher A. Binckley and David R. Chalcraft -- New perspectives on local and regional diversity : beyond saturation / Jonathan B. Shurin and Diane S. Srivastava -- From metacommunities to metaecosystems / Michel Loreau, Nicolas Mouquet and Robert D. Holt -- Adaptive and coadaptive dynamics in metacommunities: tracking environmental change at different spatial scales / Mathew A. Leibold, Robert D. Holt and Marcel Holyoak -- Future directions in metacommunity ecology / Robert D. Holt, Marcel Holyoak and Mathew A. Leibold.…
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- Title
- Metacommunities: spatial dynamics and ecological Communities
- Author
- Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold and Robert D. Holt (eds.)
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226350649
- ISBN 13
- 9780226350646
- Edition
- First Printing.
Until recently community ecology—a science devoted to understanding the patterns and processes of species distribution and abundance—focused mainly on specific and often limited scales of a single community. Since the 1970s, for example, metapopulation dynamics—studies of interacting groups of populations connected through movement—concentrated on the processes of population turnover, extinction, and establishment of new populations.
Metacommunities takes the hallmarks of metapopulation theory to the next level by considering a group of communities, each of which may contain numerous populations, connected by species interactions within communities and the movement of individuals between communities. In examining communities open to dispersal, the book unites a broad range of ecological theories, presenting some of the first empirical investigations and revealing the value of the metacommunity approach.
The collection of empirical, theoretical, and synthetic chapters in Metacommunities seeks to understand how communities work in fragmented landscapes. Encouraging community ecologists to rethink some of the leading theories of population and community dynamics, Metacommunities urges ecologists to expand the spatiotemporal scales of their research.
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