Ecology category: 3266 books
Dispersal, Individual Movement and Spatial Ecology
A Mathematical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Dispersal of plants and animals is one of the most fascinating subjects in ecology. It has long been recognized as an important factor affecting ecosystem dynamics. Dispersal is apparently a phenomenon of biological origin; however, because of its complexity, it cannot be studied comprehensively by...
Behaviour and Ecology of Spiders
Contributions from the Neotropical Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Within the last few decades, arachnology in the Neotropical region has experienced a great development filling the knowledge gap in one of the most diverse regions of the world. Nevertheless, large geographical areas remain poorly sampled, especially within the Amazon, and new genera and species have...
by Andrew P. Hendry
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This book provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to eco-evolutionary...
Sketches of Nature
A Geneticist's Look at the Biological World During a Golden Era of Molecular Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This visually appealing book recounts the history of molecular ecology and evolution as seen through the personal lens of one of its most prolific practitioners, who has studied a panorama of creatures ranging from corals, sponges, and other invertebrates to a wide variety of vertebrate animals including...
Distribution Ecology
From Individual Habitat Use to Species Biogeographical Range
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
This book brings together a set of approaches to the study of individual-species ecology based on the analysis of spatial variations of abundance. Distribution ecology assumes that ecological phenomena can be understood when analyzing the extrinsic (environmental) or intrinsic (physiological constraints,...
by Maurício Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
SEVEN TEXTS ABOUT ECOLOGY: POINTS OF VIEW OF ONE BRAZILIAN ECOLOGICAL ACTIVIST is a compilation of texts, articles and papers elaborated by the Brazilian environmentalist Maurício Waldman during the last five years, published in newspapers, magazines, academic journals and websites. Waldman, a historical...
Quantitative Ecology
Measurement, Models and Scaling
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
A follow-up to the highly successful first edition, this book reviews the manifold ways that scale influences the interpretation of ecological variation. As scale, magnitude, quantity, and measurement occupy an expanding role in ecology, this 2e will be an indispensable addition to individual and...
Disease Ecology
Galapagos Birds and their Parasites
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book provides the first collection of chapters written by scientists who have contributed to the understanding of disease ecology in the Galapagos Islands, an iconic and historic natural site. The Galapagos Archipelago straddles the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean, almost 1000 km off the...
Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Most projects in Landscape Ecology, at some point, define a species-habitat association. These models are inherently spatial, dealing with landscapes and their configurations. Whether coding behavioral rules for dispersal of simulated organisms through simulated landscapes, or designing the sampling...
Hands-On Chemical Ecology:
Simple Field and Laboratory Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Hands-On Chemical Ecology: Simple Field and Laboratory Exercises, a premiere collection of practical exercises in chemical ecology, offers tools and strategies for understanding this young science. The exercises included use general principles and follow a simple structure. Topics examined include...
Microbiome Community Ecology
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This book reviews the mechanisms, patterns, and processes that regulate prokaryotic diversity through different habitats in the context of evolutionary and ecological hypotheses, principles, and theories. Despite the tremendous role of prokaryotic diversity in the function of the global ecosystem,...
Community Ecology
Analytical Methods Using R and Excel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Interactions between species are of fundamental importance to all living systems and the framework we have for studying these interactions is community ecology. This is important to our understanding of the planets biological diversity and how species interactions relate to the functioning of ecosystems...
by Cang Hui, David M. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Humans have moved organisms around the world for centuries but it is only relatively recently that invasion ecology has grown into a mainstream research field. This book examines both the spread and impact dynamics of invasive species, placing the science of invasion biology on a new, more rigorous,...
by Sengli J. Damanik, Tony Whitten
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
The Ecology of Sumatra distills for the first time the information found in nearly 1,500 scholarly works relevant to an understanding of the full range of natural and man-made ecosystems on the island-many of them available only in Dutch, German or Indonesian. It was originally prepared by a team...