The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems by J Philip Grime

The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems by J Philip Grime

In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote I think and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin's tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things.

“In summary, The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystemsis well-written and stimulating, and encourages its readers to think about how all the pieces of ecology might fit together, from the scale of an individual organism to entire ecosystemsIt would make a valuable addition to the library of any scientist interested in ecological and evolutionary strategies.”  (Austral Ecology, 1 October 2013)

“Certainly I have found this a useful way to think about conservation Management.”  (British Ecological Society, 1 April 2013)

“The case studies range from microbes to animals, and even palaeontology is included in the mix, making the book a very comprehensive resource for those interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics.”  (Teaching Biology, 20 December 2012)

“I recommend this book to people interested in evolutionary and ecological strategies in ecosystems, to those who think about universal patterns in organism life history tactics and also to those who love the challenge of linking ecology and evolution.”  (Basic and Applied Ecology, 1 November 2012)

“A significant contribution to the field and a must read for ecologists.  Summing Up:  Highly recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 October 2012)

Philip Grime is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield where he currently maintains long-term experiments at the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory in North Derbyshire. As a pioneer of experimental approaches to communities and ecosystems Professor Grime is an elected member of the Dutch and British Royal Societies and was the inaugural recipient in 2011 of the Alexander von Humboldt Medal awarded by the International Association for Vegetation Science.

Simon Pierce is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Milan, Italy, and at the time of writing taught plant physiological ecology at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. His research encompasses plant community ecology and ecophysiology, and the reproductive biology, cultivation and conservation of terrestrial orchids. During his career he has lived and worked in the Republic of Panama, as an Andrew W. Mellon research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, for the University of Cambridge, UK. He holds a doctorate from the University of Durham, UK, and a degree from the University of Wales, Bangor.

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ISBN 13	9780470674826
ISBN 10	0470674822
Title	The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems
Author	J Philip Grime
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2012-04-10
Number of pages	264
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