Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function

Herausgegeben:Pawar, Samraat; Woodward, Guy; Dell, Anthony I.

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Produktbeschreibung

The theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Ecological Research Volume 52
• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: S0065-2504(15)X0002-X
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 21mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780128024454
• Artikelnr.: 42130141

Autorenporträt

Guy Woodward is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and Series Editor for Advances in Ecological Research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers in Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change, with a strong emphasis on understanding and predicting how aquatic ecosystems and food webs respond to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stressors, including climate change, chemical pollution, habitat degradation and invasive species. Much of this work covers multiple scales in space and time and also a range of organisational levels - from genes to ecosystems. His research group and ongoing collaborations span the natural and social sciences, reflecting the need for multidisciplinary approaches for addressing the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems


Jean P. Gibert, Anthony I. Dell, John P. DeLong and Samraat Pawar




2. Individual Variability: The Missing Component to our Understanding of Predator-Prey Interactions


Nathalie Pettorelli, Anne Hilborn , Clare Duncan and Sarah M. Durant




3. Individual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species Persistence


Jean P. Gibert and John P. DeLong




4. Predictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)


Kate L. Laskowski, Simon Pearish, Miles Bensky and Alison M. Bell




5. Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant-Insect Communities Facing Disturbances: Implications for Community Maintenance and Agricultural Management


Ewen Georgelin, Grigoris Kylafis and Nicolas Loeuille




6. Population and Community Body Size Structure Across a Complex Environmental Gradient


Anthony I. Dell, Lei Zhao, Ulrich Brose, Richard G. Pearson and Ross A. Alford




7. Shifts in the Diversity and Composition of Consumer Traits Constrain the Effects of Land Use on Stream Ecosystem Functioning
   André Frainer and Brendan G. McKie



8. The Role of Body Size Variation in Community Assembly


Samraat Pawar




9. Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories


Brian J. Enquist, Jon Norberg, Stephen P. Bonser, Cyrille Violle, Colleen T. Webb, Amanda Henderson, Lindsey L. Sloat and Van M. Savage




10. Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning
    
    Oswald J. Schmitz, Robert W. Buchkowski, Karin T. Burghardt, and Colin M. Donihue

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