Denison Darwinian Agriculture

How Understanding Evolution Can Improve Agriculture
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4281-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Denison, R. Ford

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Chapter 1 Repaying Darwin’s Debt to Agriculture 1
Chapter 2 What Do We Need from Agriculture? 9
Chapter 3 Evolution 101 28
The Power of Natural Selection
Chapter 4 Darwinian Agriculture’s Three Core Principles 43
Chapter 5 What Won’t Work 54
Tradeoff-blind
Biotechnology
Chapter 6 Selfish Genes, Sophisticated Plants, and Haphazard
Ecosystems 76
Chapter 7 What Won’t Work 95
Misguided Mimicry of Natural Ecosystems
Chapter 8 What Has Worked 120
Improving Cooperation within Species
Chapter 9 What Could Work Better 145
Cooperation between Two Species
Chapter 10 Stop Evolution Now! 164
Chapter 11 Learning from Plants, Ants, and Ecosystems 177
Chapter 12 Diversity, Bet-hedging,
and Selection among Ideas 190
Acknowledgments 217
Glossary 219
References 227
Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

R. Ford Denison is adjunct professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota and taught crop ecology at the University of California, Davis.