Peter Price, Peter W. Price, Price Peter W.

Macroevolutionary Theory on Macroecological Patterns

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book sets the ecological themes of abundance, distribution, and population dynamics in an evolutionary context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780521817127
• ISBN-10: 0521817129
• Artikelnr.: 29338547

Autorenporträt

Peter W. Price is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Northern Arizona University. Over the past 40 years Professor Price has contributed over 200 research articles and book chapters to the scientific literature and has been sole author or an editor of 11 books. He has received the Founder's Memorial Award from the Entomological Society of America and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The general thesis
2. Historical views on distribution, abundance, and population dynamics
3. The focal species - basic biology
4. The focal species - emergent properties
5. The focal group - the common sawflies
6. Convergent constraints in divergent taxonomic groups
7. Divergent constraints and emergent properties
8. Common constraints and divergent emergent properties
9. The thesis applied to parasitoids, vertebrate taxa, and plants
10. Theory development and synthesis
Glossary
References
Author index
Taxonomic index
Subject index.