Spatial Ecology (eBook, PDF)

The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions
Redaktion: Tilman, David; Kareiva, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. Although the ecological world is unavoidably spatial, there have been few attempts to determine how explicit considerations of space may alter the predictions of ecological models, or what insights it may give into the causes of broad-scale ecological patterns. As this book demonstrates, the spatial structure of a habitat can fundamentally alter both the qualitative and quantitative dynamics and outcomes of ecological processes.

Spatial Ecology highlights the importance of space to five topical areas: stability, patterns of diversity, invasions, coexistence, and pattern generation. It illustrates both the diversity of approaches used to study spatial ecology and the underlying similarities of these approaches. Over twenty contributors address issues ranging from the persistence of endangered species, to the maintenance of biodiversity, to the dynamics of hosts and their parasitoids, to disease dynamics, multispecies competition, population genetics, and fundamental processes relevant to all these cases. There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the influence of spatially explicit processes on individual species and on multispecies communities. This book synthesizes these advances, shows the limitations of traditional, non-spatial approaches, and offers a variety of new approaches to spatial ecology that should stimulate ecological research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691188362
• Artikelnr.: 52991555

Autorenporträt

David Tilman is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Ecology and Director of Cedar Creek Natural History Area at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities (Princeton). Peter Kareiva is Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of Contributors
Pt. I
Single Species Dynamics in Spatial Habitats
1
Population Dynamics in Spatial Habitats
3
2
Predictive and Practical Metapopulation Models: The Incidence Function
Approach
21
3
Variability, Patchiness, and Jump Dispersal in the Spread of an Invading
Population
46
Pt. II
Parasites, Pathogens, and Predators in a Spatially Complex World
4
The Dynamics of Spatially Distributed Host-Parasitoid Systems
75
5
Basic Epidemiological Concepts in a Spatial Context
111
6
Measles: Persistence and Synchronicity in Disease Dynamics
137
7
Genetics and the Spatial Ecology of Species Interactions: The
Silene-Ustilago System
158
Pt. III
Competition in a Spatial World
8
Competition in Spatial Habitats
185
9
Biologically Generated Spatial Pattern and the Coexistence of Competing
Species
204
10
Habitat Destruction and Species Extinctions
233
11
Local and Regional Processes as Controls of Species Richness
250
Pt. IV
The Final Analysis: Does Space Matter or Not? And How Will We Test
Our Ideas?
12
Theories of Simplification and Scaling of Spatially Distributed
Processes
271
13
Production Functions from Ecological Populations: A Survey with
Emphasis on Spatially Implicit Models
296
14
Challenges and Opportunities for Empirical Evaluation of "Spatial
Theory"
318
References
333
Index
365