Community ecology
Subtitle: processes, models, and applications
By: edited by Herman A. Verhoef, Peter J. Morin
Series: Oxford biology; Oxford biology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780199228973; 9780199228980
Subjects: Synökologie; Biotic communities
Description: This is an up-to-date study of patterns and processes involving two or more species. The book strikes a balance between plant and animal species and among studies of marine, freshwater and terrestrial communities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Topology of ecological interaction networks: the state of the art  -- Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin and Han Olff; title: Trophic dynamics of communities  -- Herman A. Verhoef and Han Olff; title: Modelling the dynamics of complex food webs  -- Ulrich Brose and Jennifer A. Dunne; title: Community assembly dynamics in space  -- Tadashi Fukami; title: Increasing spatio-temporal scales: metacommunity ecology  -- Jonathan M. Chase and Janne Bengtsson; title: Spatio-temporal structure in soil communities and ecosystem processes  -- Matty P. Berg; title: Applications of community ecology approaches in terrestrial ecosystems: local problems, remote causes  -- Wim H. van der Putten; title: Sea changes: structure and functioning of emerging marine communities  -- J. Emmett Duffy; title: Applied (meta)community ecology: diversity and ecosystem services at the intersection of local and regional processes  -- Janne Bengtsson; title: Community ecology and management of salt marshes  -- Jan P. Bakker, Dries P.J. Kuijper and Julia Stahl; title: Evolutionary processes in community ecology  -- Kothamasi, E. Toby Kiers and Marcel G.A. van der Heijden; title: Emerging frontiers of community ecology -- Peter J. Morin.