R. Norman Owen-Smith

Adaptive Herbivore Ecology

From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique monograph describing plant herbivore interactions in the context of large African herbivorous mammals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521148368
• ISBN-10: 0521148367
• Artikelnr.: 31187772

Autorenporträt

Norman Owen-Smith is Research Professor in African Ecology and heads the Centre for African Ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was awarded the Honorary Overseas Membership Award by the Ecological Society of America for his exceptional contribution to ecology. His previous book is Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology (1988, 0521 36020X hardback and 0521 426375 paperback).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Acronym and symbol conventions
1. Conceptual origins: variability in time and space
2. Consumer-resource models: theory and formulation
3. Resource abundance: intake response and time frames
4. Resource distribution: patch scales and depletion
5. Resource quality: nutritional gain and diet choice
6. Resource constraints: physiological capacities and costs
7. Resource allocation: growth, storage and reproduction
8. Resource production: regeneration and attrition
9. Resource competition: exploitation and density dependence
10. Resource-dependent mortality: nutrition, predation and demography
11. Habitat suitability: resource components and stocking densities
12. Resource partitioning: competition and coexistence
13. Population dynamics: resource basis for instability
14. An adaptive resource ecology: foundation and prospects
References
Index.