Living in a Patchy Environment - Hardcover

Shorrocks, Bryan; Swingland, Ian R.

 
9780198545910: Living in a Patchy Environment
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198545916 ISBN 13: 9780198545910
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

This book examines the effects of environmental heterogeneity, or patchiness, on populations of plants and animals. The factors explored include variations in space, time, climactic conditions, food and other resources, and exposure to predators and parasites. In contrast to the once-prevailing view that environmental variation can be averaged-out without losing essential dynamics, the contributors to this volume find such heterogeneities often play a significant role in structuring large populations, especially in lessening the risk of extinction. Topics include the ways animals choose between patches that will expose them to different probabilities of starvation and predation, conservation in a variable environment and the optimal size of reserves, sex determination and sex ratios, patchiness and community structure, and extinctions of populations in correlated environments. The book will be of interest to ecologists, entomologists, environmental scientists, population geneticists, and biologists specializing in evolution, population, or conservation.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198545916
ISBN 13 
9780198545910
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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