Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-12-802445-4
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

The theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function.

Zielgruppe

Ecologists, environmentalists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pawar, Samraat

Woodward, Guy

Dell, Anthony I.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems

Jean P. Gibert, Anthony I. Dell, John P. DeLong and Samraat Pawar

- Individual Variability: The Missing Component to our Understanding of Predator-Prey Interactions

Nathalie Pettorelli, Anne Hilborn, Clare Duncan and Sarah M. Durant

- Individual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species Persistence

Jean P. Gibert and John P. DeLong

- Predictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Kate L. Laskowski, Simon Pearish, Miles Bensky and Alison M. Bell

- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant-Insect Communities Facing Disturbances: Implications for Community Maintenance and Agricultural Management

Ewen Georgelin, Grigoris Kylafis and Nicolas Loeuille

- Population and Community Body Size Structure Across a Complex Environmental Gradient

Anthony I. Dell, Lei Zhao, Ulrich Brose, Richard G. Pearson and Ross A. Alford

- Shifts in the Diversity and Composition of Consumer Traits Constrain the Effects of Land Use on Stream Ecosystem Functioning André Frainer and Brendan G. McKie

- The Role of Body Size Variation in Community Assembly

Samraat Pawar

- Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories

Brian J. Enquist, Jon Norberg, Stephen P. Bonser, Cyrille Violle, Colleen T. Webb, Amanda Henderson, Lindsey L. Sloat and Van M. Savage

- Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning Oswald J. Schmitz, Robert W. Buchkowski, Karin T. Burghardt, and Colin M. Donihue

Über Autor(innen)

Woodward, Guy
Guy Woodward is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and Series Editor for Advances in Ecological Research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers in Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change, with a strong emphasis on understanding and predicting how aquatic ecosystems and food webs respond to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stressors, including climate change, chemical pollution, habitat degradation and invasive species. Much of this work covers multiple scales in space and time and also a range of organisational levels - from genes to ecosystems. His research group and ongoing collaborations span the natural and social sciences, reflecting the need for multidisciplinary approaches for addressing the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.