Christopher Wills (Profe Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences

Why Ecosystems Matter

Preserving the Key to Our Survival

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Darwin gained a profound insight into how complex ecosystems evolve through the interactions of their species. Here, visiting some remarkable ecosystems, Christopher Wills explains the recent scientific advances that allow us to measure the evolutionary drivers powering their diversity and resilience, and can enable us to protect and restore them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780192887573
• ISBN-10: 0192887572
• Artikelnr.: 69192209

Autorenporträt

Christoper Wills is Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Diego. Wills was the first to generate an enzyme with changed function through artificial selection, and to show the nature of the genetic change and the nature of the functional change. More recently, his research includes widespread negative density-dependent selection and how it maintains the diversity of tree species in tropical forests. His books include The Wisdom of the Genes (1990), The Darwinian Tourist (2010), and Green Equilibrium (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: How Darwin Brought Evolution and Ecology Together
2: Lost Worlds
3: How Ecosystems Survive Change
4: The Genetic Contents of the Evolutionary Cauldron
5: How Entangled is an Entangled Bank
6: The Genetics, and the Boundless Potential, of Evolutionary Entanglements
7: Benefiting From the Bubbling Evolutionary Cauldrons
8: Venturing Beyond the Red Queen
9: Tipping Points
10: Retaining and Rebuilding the World's Evolutionary Cauldrons