Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns
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- Author: Peter W. Price, Northern Arizona University
- Date Published: November 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521817127
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In Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns, Peter Price establishes a completely new vision of the central themes in ecology. For the first time in book form, the study of distribution, abundance, and population size variation in animals is cast in an evolutionary framework. The book argues that evolved characters of organisms such as morphology, behavior, and life history influence strongly their ecological relationships, including the way that populations fluctuate through time and space. The central ideas in the book are supported by data gathered from over twenty years of research, primarily into plant and herbivore interactions, concentrating on insects. The huge diversity of insect herbivores provides the immense comparative power necessary for a strong evolutionary study of ecological principles. The book is intended as essential reading for all researchers and students of ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior, and for entomologists working in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry.
Read more- For the first time a strong evolutionary perspective is developed to account for the distribution, abundance and dynamics of organisms
- A broad, empirically founded evolutionary theory is proposed for the understanding of population dynamics
- The strongly comparative approach provides a mechanistic understanding of broad patterns in nature
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- Date Published: November 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521817127
- length: 302 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- contains: 86 b/w illus. 27 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The general thesis
2. Historical views on distribution, abundance, and population dynamics
3. The focal species - basic biology
4. The focal species - emergent properties
5. The focal group - the common sawflies
6. Convergent constraints in divergent taxonomic groups
7. Divergent constraints and emergent properties
8. Common constraints and divergent emergent properties
9. The thesis applied to parasitoids, vertebrate taxa, and plants
10. Theory development and synthesis
Glossary
References
Author index
Taxonomic index
Subject index.
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