John A. Wiens

The Ecology of Bird Communities

Herausgeber: Birks, H. J. B.; Wiens, J. A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Processes and Variations, discusses the ways in which bird community patterns have been interpreted. It describes how ecologists have gone about identifying the factors believed to influence the patterns of organization of of bird communities and examines how the complexity and variability of natural environments may influence efforts to discern and understand the nature of these communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9780521426343
• ISBN-10: 0521426340
• Artikelnr.: 21371123

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Foundation of Avian Community Ecology: 1. The development of avian community ecology
2. Determining pattern and process: the logical structure of community ecology
3. The importance of methodology
Part II. The Patterns of Avian Communities: 4. The assembly of communities
5. Numbers of species and their abundances
6. Niche theory and guilds
7. Ecomorphological patterns of communities
8. Distributional patterns of species
9. Habitat distributions of species
10. Resources and their use
11. Density compensation and niche shifts
12. Convergence of species and communities
13. Bioenergetic approaches to communities
14. A re-examination of the recent history of avian community ecology
References
Author index
Subject index.