
Living in a Patchy Environment
Oxford University Press
1st Edition
Published on 28. June 1990
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-0-19-854591-0 (ISBN)
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Description
This book examines the effects of environmental heterogeneity (patchiness) in populations of plants and animals. In contrast to a once-prevailing view that environmental variation can be averaged-out over a population without losing any of the essential dynamics, the contributors to this volume explore various kinds of patchiness - in space, in time, in climatic conditions, in food and other resources, in exposure to predators and parasites - and find that such
heterogeneities often play a significant role in structuring large populations, especially in lessening the risk of total extinction.
heterogeneities often play a significant role in structuring large populations, especially in lessening the risk of total extinction.
Reviews / Votes
'The book is a patchwork of interesting and in some cases excellent chapters.'Susan Harrison, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, Nature, Vol.348, Nov '90
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
572 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-854591-0 (9780198545910)
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Persons
Editor
Department of BiologyUniversity of Leeds
Director, Durrell Institute of Conservation and EcologyUniversity of Kent
Content
Introduction: Patchy environment - an overview ; 1. Starvation and predation in a patchy environment ; 2. The response of plants to patchy environments ; 3. Dynamic stability of a single-species population in a divided and ephemeral environment ; 4. Variance and patchiness in rates of population change - a planthopper's case history ; 5. Coexistence in a patchy environment ; 6. Population dynamics and community structure of parasitic helminths ; 7. Dung and carrion insects ; 8. Patchiness and community structure ; 9. Extinction of finite metapopulations in correlated environments ; 10. Conservation in a variable environment - the optimal size of reserves ; 11. Does interdemic group selection occur in commensal house mice (Mus domesticus)? ; 12. Sex determination and sex ratios in patchy environments