Spatial Ecology: The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions: The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions (MPB-30) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0691016534 ISBN 13: 9780691016535

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. Although the ecological world is unavoidably spatial, there have been few attempts to determine how explicit considerations of space may alter the predictions of ecological models, or what insights it may give into the causes of broad-scale ecological patterns. As this book demonstrates, the spatial structure of a habitat can fundamentally alter both the qualitative and quantitative dynamics and outcomes of ecological processes.

Spatial Ecology highlights the importance of space to five topical areas: stability, patterns of diversity, invasions, coexistence, and pattern generation. It illustrates both the diversity of approaches used to study spatial ecology and the underlying similarities of these approaches. Over twenty contributors address issues ranging from the persistence of endangered species, to the maintenance of biodiversity, to the dynamics of hosts and their parasitoids, to disease dynamics, multispecies competition, population genetics, and fundamental processes relevant to all these cases. There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the influence of spatially explicit processes on individual species and on multispecies communities. This book synthesizes these advances, shows the limitations of traditional, non-spatial approaches, and offers a variety of new approaches to spatial ecology that should stimulate ecological research.

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Contenuti

	Preface
	List of Contributors
Pt. I	Single Species Dynamics in Spatial Habitats
1	Population Dynamics in Spatial Habitats	3
2	Predictive and Practical Metapopulation Models: The Incidence Function Approach	21
3	Variability, Patchiness, and Jump Dispersal in the Spread of an Invading Population	46
Pt. II	Parasites, Pathogens, and Predators in a Spatially Complex World
4	The Dynamics of Spatially Distributed Host-Parasitoid Systems	75
5	Basic Epidemiological Concepts in a Spatial Context	111
6	Measles: Persistence and Synchronicity in Disease Dynamics	137
7	Genetics and the Spatial Ecology of Species Interactions: The Silene-Ustilago System	158
Pt. III	Competition in a Spatial World
8	Competition in Spatial Habitats	185
9	Biologically Generated Spatial Pattern and the Coexistence of Competing Species	204
10	Habitat Destruction and Species Extinctions	233
11	Local and Regional Processes as Controls of Species Richness	250
Pt. IV	The Final Analysis: Does Space Matter or Not? And How Will We Test Our Ideas?
12	Theories of Simplification and Scaling of Spatially Distributed Processes	271
13	Production Functions from Ecological Populations: A Survey with Emphasis on Spatially Implicit Models	296
14	Challenges and Opportunities for Empirical Evaluation of "Spatial Theory"	318
	References	333
	Index	365

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691016534
• ISBN 13: 9780691016535
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Redattore: Tilman David, Kareiva Peter
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile