Community Ecology

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-922898-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 595 g

Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of co-existing species. This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in theory and applications of community ecology, with special attention to topology, dynamics, the importance of spatial and temporal scale, as well as applications to emerging problems in human-dominated ecosystems (including the restoration and reconstruction of viable communities). It adopts a mainly theoretical approach and focuses on the use of network-based theory which remains little explored in standard community ecology textbooks. The book includes discussion of the effects of biotic invasions on natural communities, the linking of ecological network structure to empirically measured community properties and dynamics, the effects of evolution on community patterns and processes, and the integration of fundamental interactions into ecological networks. A final chapter indicates future research directions for the discipline. This book provides ideal graduate seminar course material.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verhoef, Herman A.

Morin, Peter J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Umweltgeologie, Geoökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Soziophysik, Wirtschaftsphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction

- Part I Shape and Structure

- 1: Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin, and Han Olff: The Topology of Ecological Interaction Networks: The State of the Art

- Part II Dynamics

- 2: Herman A. Verhoef and Han Olff: Trophic Dynamics of Communities

- 3: Ulrich Brose and Jennifer A. Dunne: Modeling the Dynamics of Complex Food Webs

- 4: Tadashi Fukami: Community Assembly Dynamics in Space

- Part III Space and Time

- 5: Jonathan M. Chase and Janne Bengtsson: Increasing Spatio-Temporal Scales: Metacommunity Ecology

- 6: Matty P. Berg: Spatio-Temporal Structure in Soil Communities and Ecosystem Processes

- Part IV Applications

- 7: Wim H. van der Putten: Applications of Community Ecology Approaches in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Local Problems, Remote Causes

- 8: J. Emmett Duffy: Sea Changes: Structure and Functioning of Emerging Marine Communities

- 9: Janne Bengtsson: Applied (Meta)community Ecology: Diversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intersection of Local and Regional Processes

- 10: Jan P. Bakker, Dries P.J. Kuijper, and Julia Stahl: Community Ecology and Management of Salt Marshes

- Part V Future Directions

- 11: Jacintha Ellers: Evolutionary Processes in Community Ecology

- 12: Nicolas Loeuille and Michel Loreau: Emergence of Complex Food Web Structure in Community Evolution Models

- 13: David Kothamasi, E. Toby Kiers, and Marcel G.A. van der Heijden: Mutualisms and Community Organization

- 14: Peter J. Morin: Emerging Frontiers of Community Ecology

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Herman Verhoef obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Biology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. After having been involved in the ecophysiology of soil animals, he has turned his attention to Community Ecology. He is a Professor of Soil Ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focussing on soil-plant interactions and the relations between spatial heterogeneity and biodiversity.

Peter Morin obtained his PhD in Zoology from Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. He is a Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is a community ecologist, and is interested in a number of topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, ecological networks, interactions between competition and predation, and microbial ecology.