Community ecology
By: Gary G. Mittelbach
Publisher: Sinauer Associates
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sunderland, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780878935093
Subjects: Biotic communities; Ecology
Description: "Community Ecology is a book for graduate students, researchers, and advanced undergraduates seeking a broad, up-to-date coverage of ecological concepts at the community level. Community ecology has undergone a transformation in recent years, from a discipline largely focused on processes occurring within a local area to a discipline encompassing a much richer domain of study, including the linkages between communities separated in space (metacommunity dynamics), niche and neutral theory, the interplay between ecology and evolution (eco-evolutionary dynamics), and the influence of historical and regional processes in shaping patterns of biodiversity. To fully understand these new developments, however, students need a strong foundation in the study of species interactions and how these interactions are assembled into food webs and other ecological networks."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.