The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity
40th Symposium of the British Ecological Society

Table of Contents

1. The world is heterogeneous: ecological consequences of living in a patchy environment A. J. A. Stewart, E. A. John and M. J. Hutchings
2. Ecological heterogeneity: an ontogeny of concepts and approaches J. A. Wiens
3. Generation of heterogeneity by organisms: creation, maintenance and transformation S. T. A. Pickett, M. L. Cadenasso and C. G. Jones
4. Heterogeneity, diversity and scale in plant communities S. D. Wilson
5. Plant response to patchy soils A. Fitter, A. Hodge and D. Robinson
6. The effects of heterogeneous nutrient supply on plant performance: a survey of responses, with special reference to clonal herbs M. J. Hutchings, D. K. Wijesinghe and E. A. John
7. Plant competition in spatially heterogeneous environments B. B. Casper, J. F. Cahill Jr and R. B. Jackson
8. Light heterogeneity in tropical rain forests: photosynthetic responses and their ecological consequences J. R. Watling and M. C. Press
9. Heterogeneity in plant quality and its impact on the population ecology of insect herbivores M. D. Hunter, R. E. Forkner and J. N. McNeil
10. Foraging ecology of animals in response to heterogeneous environments J. S. Brown
11. Habitat heterogeneity and the behavioural and population ecology of host-parasitoid interactions H. C. J. Godfray, C. B. Müller and A. R. Kraaijeveld
12. The effects of heterogeneity on dispersal and colonization in plants M. Rees, M. Mangel, L. Turnbull, A. Sheppard and D. Briese
13. Genetic variation and adaptation in tree populations D. H. Boshier and M. R. Billingham
14. Food webs and resource sheds: towards spatially delimiting trophic interactions M. E. Power and W. E. Rainey
15. Habitat destruction and extinctions: predictions from metapopulation models C. Dytham
16. Environmental heterogeneity and species survival in degraded tropical landscapes R. T. Corlett
17. Ecological experiments in farmland conservation D. W. Macdonald, R. E. Feber, F. H. Tattersall and P. J. Johnson
18. Environmental heterogeneity: the effects on plants in restoration ecology J. P. Bakker
19. Concluding remarks: a review of some open questions J. H. Lawton.

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