The Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity: 40th Symposium of the British Ecological SocietyMichael Hutchings, Elizabeth John, Alan Stewart Cambridge University Press, 2000 - 434 sidor The last decade has seen many important advances in the measurement and interpretation of the impacts of environmental heterogeneity upon organisms and ecological processes. Progress has been made at a range of scales of organization. Following a Symposium on the Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity, held in 1999, a team of experts has collaborated to produce this volume, which discusses the effects of environmental heterogeneity. It includes discussion of the effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on individuals, populations, communities and biodiversity, and of the management and conservation implications of environmental heterogeneity. |
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The world is heterogeneous ecological consequences of living in a patchy environment | 1 |
Ecological heterogeneity an ontogeny of concepts and approaches | 9 |
Generation of heterogeneity by organisms creation maintenance and transformation | 33 |
Heterogeneity diversity and scale in plant communities | 53 |
Plant response to patchy soils | 71 |
The effects of heterogeneous nutrient supply on plant performance a survey of responses with special reference to clonal herbs | 91 |
Plant competition in spatially heterogeneous environments | 111 |
Light heterogeneity in tropical rain forests photosynthetic responses and their ecological consequences | 131 |
The effects of heterogeneity on dispersal and colonization in plants | 237 |
Genetic variation and adaptation in tree populations | 267 |
Food webs and resource sheds towards spatially delimiting trophic interactions | 291 |
Habitat destruction and extinctions predictions from metapopulation models | 315 |
Environmental heterogeneity and species survival in degraded tropical landscapes | 333 |
Ecological experiments in farmland conservation | 357 |
Environmental heterogeneity effects on plants in restoration ecology | 379 |
Concluding remarks a review of some open questions | 401 |
Heterogeneity in plant quality and its impact on the population ecology of insect herbivores | 155 |
Foraging ecology of animals in response to heterogeneous environments | 181 |
Habitat heterogeneity and the behavioural and population ecology of hostparasitoid interactions | 215 |
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