From Populations to Ecosystems by Michel Loreau
Explaining how the principles of population dynamics and ecosystem functioning can be merged, this title addresses key issues in the study of biodiversity and ecosystems, such as functional complementarity, food webs, stability and complexity, material cycling, and metacommunities.-
Population and Community Ecology of Ontogenetic Development
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Theory of Island Biogeography
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The Ecological Detective
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Food Webs and Niche Space
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Evolution in Changing Environments
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Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals
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Scaling in Ecology with a Model System
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Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects
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Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics
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A Theory of Global Biodiversity
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The Population Biology of Tuberculosis
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Geographical Genetics
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The Theory of Sex Allocation
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Populations in a Seasonal Environment
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Theoretical Studies on Sex Ratio Evolution
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Some Adaptations of Marsh-Nesting Blackbirds
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The Phytochemical Landscape
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Population Ecology of Individuals
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Food Webs
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Sex and Evolution
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Natural Selection in the Wild
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Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines
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Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems
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The Florida Scrub Jay
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Sex Allocation
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Social Butterflies
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Fish Ecology, Evolution, and Exploitation
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Genetic Structure and Selection in Subdivided Populations
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Resource Competition and Community Structure
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Quantitative Viral Ecology
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Metacommunity Ecology
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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography
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Complex Population Dynamics
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Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities
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Coexistence in Ecology
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The Theory of Ecological Communities
This reviewer was particularly intrigued by the author's resurrection of the hypothesis that ecosystem complexity and biodiversity supports ecosystem stability, an early romantic notion that turned out to be extremely difficult to demonstrateHe makes a convincing case that this hypothesis may have merit after all.--Choice This is a superbly written book about a very important challenge, namely that the theories of population, community and ecosystem ecology, and of evolution, have developed separately and are not entirely compatible. We need a synthesis of theories of population dynamics and ecosystem function and, faced with a global environmental crisis, we need it badly. This book is an excellent start... I strongly recommend this book to researchers in any branch of ecology.--Alan J. Butler, Austral Ecology I found the text both informative and interesting, and certainly relied upon my background in population ecology and genetics in reviewing this text. In the classroom environment, I could see this text being used in a graduate seminar or perhaps a senior-level honors class in biology, ecology, environmental science, or any of the related disciplines (as a paleontologist, I would certainly recommend it!).--Ryan F. Morgan, Priscum
Michel Loreau is professor and Canada Research Chair in theoretical ecology at McGill University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691122700 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691122709 |
| Title | From Populations to Ecosystems |
| Author | Michel Loreau |
| Series | Monographs In Population Biology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2010-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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