Evolution in Changing Environments by Richard Levins

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Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to lon

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Evolution in Changing Environments by Richard Levins

Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.
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ISBN 13 9780691080628
ISBN 10 0691080623
Title Evolution in Changing Environments
Author Richard Levins
Series Monographs In Population Biology
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 1968-08-21
Number of pages 132
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