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Community Ecology
Processes, Models, and Applications
Edited by Herman A. Verhoef and Peter J. Morin
264 pages
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75 illustrations plus 4p colour plate section
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246x189mm
978-0-19-922898-0
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Paperback
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26 November 2009
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- Incorporates the latest developments in the field, and complements the existing textbook literature on community ecology
- Co-edited by two prominent community ecologists with contributions from the top researchers in the field
- Includes a mix of theoretical and applied chapters, as well as a balance of emerging and established research topics, albeit with a specific focus on food web and ecological network theory/models
- Indicates future research directions and provides ideal reference material for graduate seminar courses in community ecology
- Based on a proven graduate teaching course
Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of co-existing species. This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in theory and applications of community ecology, with special attention to topology, dynamics, the importance of spatial and temporal scale, as well as applications to emerging problems in human-dominated ecosystems (including the restoration and reconstruction of viable communities). It adopts a mainly theoretical approach and focuses on the use of network-based theory which remains little explored in standard community ecology textbooks. The book includes discussion of the effects of biotic invasions on natural communities, the linking of ecological network structure to empirically measured community
properties and dynamics, the effects of evolution on community patterns and processes, and the integration of fundamental interactions into ecological networks. A final chapter indicates future research directions for the discipline. This book provides ideal graduate seminar course material.Readership: <i>Community Ecology</i> will be suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in the fields of population and community ecology, network biology, and theoretical ecology.
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Edited by Herman A. Verhoef, Professor of Soil Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Peter J. Morin, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources, Rutgers University, USA Contributors:
Jan P. Bakker
Janne Bengtsson
Matty P. Berg
Ulrich Brose
Jonathan M. Chase
J. Emmett Duffy
Jennifer A. Dunne
Jacintha Ellers
Tadashi Fukami
E. Toby Kiers
David Kothamasi
Dries P.J. Kuijper
Nicolas Loeuille
Michel Loreau
Peter J. Morin
Han Olff
Owen L. Petchey
Julia Stahl
Marcel G.A. van der Heijden
Wim H. van der Putten
Herman A. Verhoef
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"This book contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms shaping ecological communities." - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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Preface
Introduction
Part I Shape and Structure
1: Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin, and Han Olff: The Topology of Ecological Interaction Networks: The State of the Art
Part II Dynamics
2: Herman A. Verhoef and Han Olff: Trophic Dynamics of Communities
3: Ulrich Brose and Jennifer A. Dunne: Modeling the Dynamics of Complex Food Webs
4: Tadashi Fukami: Community Assembly Dynamics in Space
Part III Space and Time
5: Jonathan M. Chase and Janne Bengtsson: Increasing Spatio-Temporal Scales: Metacommunity Ecology
6: Matty P. Berg: Spatio-Temporal Structure in Soil Communities and Ecosystem Processes
Part IV Applications
7: Wim H. van der Putten: Applications of Community Ecology Approaches in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Local Problems, Remote Causes
8: J. Emmett Duffy: Sea Changes: Structure and Functioning of Emerging Marine Communities
9: Janne Bengtsson: Applied (Meta)community Ecology: Diversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intersection of Local and Regional Processes
10: Jan P. Bakker, Dries P.J. Kuijper, and Julia Stahl: Community Ecology and Management of Salt Marshes
Part V Future Directions
11: Jacintha Ellers: Evolutionary Processes in Community Ecology
12: Nicolas Loeuille and Michel Loreau: Emergence of Complex Food Web Structure in Community Evolution Models
13: David Kothamasi, E. Toby Kiers, and Marcel G.A. van der Heijden: Mutualisms and Community Organization
14: Peter J. Morin: Emerging Frontiers of Community Ecology
References
Index
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