Habitat Structure by Ss Bell
We conceived the idea for this book after teaching a graduate seminar on 'Habitat Complexity' at The University of South Florida. Discussions during the seminar led us to conclude that similar goals were to be found in studies of the topic that spanned the breadth of ecological research. Yet, the exact meaning of 'habitat structure', and the way in which it was measured, seemed to differ widely among subdisciplines. Our own research, which involves several sorts of ecology, convinced us that the differences among subdisciplines were indeed real ones, and that they did inhibit communica- tion. We decided that interchange of ideas among researchers working in marine ecology, plant-animal interactions, physiological ecology, and other more-or-less independent fields would be worthwhile, in that it might lead to useful generalizations about 'habitat structure'. To foster this interchange of ideas. we organized a symposium to attract researchers working with a wide variety of organisms living in many habitats, but united in their interest in the topic of 'habitat structure'. The symposium was held at The University of South Florida's Chinsegut Hill Conference Center, in May. 1988. We asked participants to think about 'habitat structure' in new ways; to synthesize important, but fragmented, information; and. perhaps. to consider ways of translating ideas across systems. The chapters contained in this book reflect the participants' attempts to do so. The book is divided into four parts, by major themes that we have found useful categorizations.-
Biological Invasions
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Rarity
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Fire and Plants
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Individual Behavior and Community Dynamics
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Regional Analysis and the New International Division of Labor
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The Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Theory and Applications
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Structure and Dynamics of Fungal Populations
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Risk Assessment in Conservation Biology
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Dynamics of Coral Communities
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Regulation and Stabilization Paradigms in Population Ecology
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Competition
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Spatiotemporal Models of Population and Community Dynamics
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An Outline of Mathematical Logic
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Collective Choice in Education
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Space, Time and Geometry
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The Biology of Rarity
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Resource Competition
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Chaos in Real Data
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Plant Succession
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Analytical Population Dynamics
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Prophets and Markets
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The Structure of European Industry
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Invasive Species and Biodiversity Management
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Ecology of Shallow Lakes
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Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs
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Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities
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Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems
David C. Rostal is a professor in the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern University. Earl D. McCoy is the associate chairman of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida. Henry R. Mushinsky is a Kosove Graduate Professor and graduate director for the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789401053631 |
| ISBN 10 | 9401053634 |
| Title | Habitat Structure |
| Author | Ss Bell |
| Series | Population And Community Biology Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2012-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 438 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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