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  title info:
    title: Community ecology
  name:
    name part: Morin, Peter J. (Peter Jay)
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 407 pages)
  abstract: All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations of natural history, statistical descriptions of natural patterns, laboratory and field experiments, and mathematical modelling. Community patterns arise from a complex assortment of processes including competition, predation, mutualism, indirect effects, habitat selection, which result in the most complex biological entities on earth - including iconic systems such as rain forests and coral reefs. This book introduces the reader to a balanced coverage of concepts and theories central to community ecology, using examples drawn from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems, and focusing on animal, plant, and microbial species. The historical development of key concepts is described using descriptions of classic studies, while examples of exciting new developments in recent studies are used to point toward future advances in our understanding of community organization. Throughout, there is an emphasis on the crucial interplay between observations, experiments, and mathematical models. This second updated edition is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scientists who seek a broad overview of community ecology. The book has developed from a course in community ecology that has been taught by the author since 1983.
  table of contents: Communities: Basic Patterns and Elementary Processes. Communities -- Competition: Mechanisms, Models, and Niches -- Competition: Experiments, Observations, and Null Models -- Predation and Communities: Empirical Patterns -- Models of Predation in Simple Communities -- Food Webs -- Mutualisms -- Indirect Effects -- Factors Influencing Interactions Among Species. Temporal Patterns: Seasonal Dynamics, Priority Effects, and Assembly Rules -- Factors Infl uencing Interactions Among Species. Habitat Selection -- Spatial Dynamics -- Large - Scale, Integrative Community Phenomena. Causes and Consequences of Diversity -- Succession -- Applied Community Ecology -- Appendix: Stability Analysis.
  note: Peter J. Morin.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Biotic communities
  classification: QH541 .M574 2011
  classification: 577.8/2
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    title info:
      title: Community ecology
    name:
      name part: Morin, Peter Jay, 1953-
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
      edition: 2nd ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 2011000108
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    title info:
      title: Wiley online library
  identifier: 1444341936 (e-book)
  identifier: 1444341960 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781444341935 (e-book)
  identifier: 9781444341966 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781405124119 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781444338218 (cloth)
  identifier: 9781444341942 (ePub)
  identifier: 9781444341959 (Mobi)
  identifier: 10.1002/9781444341966 Wiley InterScience
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    record content source: DG1
    record creation date: 110811
    record change date: 20210727155957.0
    record identifier: in00002731905
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng