Metapopulation Biology
Subtitle: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution
Contributors: Ilkka A. Hanski (Editor); Michael E. Gilpin (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: March 4, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780123234469
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Developmental biology; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Genetics (non-medical); Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Population biology; Science / Ecology; Science-Life Sciences - Evolution; Science-Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Life Sciences - Biology - General
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).