Community Ecology A Workshop held at Davis, CA, April 1986

This book presents the proceedings of a workshop on community ecology organized at Davis, in April, 1986, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. There have been several recent symposia on community ecology (Strong et. al., 1984, Diamond and Case, 1987) which have covered a wide range of topics. The goal...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hastings, Alan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
Series:Lecture Notes in Biomathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Pattern, Scale, and Variability: An Ecological Perspective
  • Planktonic Micro—Communities in the Sea: biofluid mechanical view
  • When Should You Include Age Structure
  • Spatial Aspects of Species Interactions: the Wedding of Models and Experiments
  • Interactions Between Environment and Competition: How Fluctuations Mediate Coexistence and Competitive Exclusion
  • Untangling ‘An Entangled Bank’: Recent Facts and Theories About Community Food Webs
  • The Geometry of Niches
  • The Dynamics of Highly Aggregated Models of Whole Communities