Metapopulation Biology
Subtitle: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution
Contributors: Ilkka Hanski (Editor); Michael E. Gilpin (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Pr; Academic Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780123234452
First sentence: At no period in the history of ecology has the spatial structure of populations and communities been entirely ignored, but the role that space plays in forming ecological patterns and in molding processes has been viewed very differently in different times (McIntosh, 1991).