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  title info:
    title: Coexistence in ecology
    sub title: a mechanistic perspective
  name:
    name part: McPeek, Mark A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A comprehensive framework for understanding species coexistence is the central concept in community ecology, but an understanding of this concept requires that we study the actual mechanisms of species interactions. Coexistence in Ecology examines the major features of these mechanisms for species that coexist at different positions in complex food webs and derives empirical tests from model predictions. Mark McPeek explores the various challenges species face by systematically building a model food web, beginning with an ecosystem devoid of life and then adding one species at a time. With the introduction of each new species, he evaluates the properties it must possess to invade a community and quantifies the changes in the abundances of other species that result from a successful invasion. McPeek continues this process until he achieves a multi-trophic level food web with many species coexisting at each trophic level, from omnivores, mutualists and pathogens to herbivores, carnivores and basic plants. He then describes the observational and experimental empirical studies that can test the theoretical predictions resulting from the model analyses. Synthesizing decades of theoretical research in community ecology, Coexistence in Ecology offers new perspectives on how to develop an empirical program of study rooted in the natural histories of species and the mechanisms by which they actually interact with one another.
  note: Mark A. McPeek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Coexistence of species
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
  classification: QH541 .M3865 2022
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Monographs in population biology ; 66
  identifier: 9780691204871
  identifier: 069120487X
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  identifier: 0691204861
  identifier: 9780691229225
  identifier: 2021036887
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210726
    record change date: 20220520153426.2
    record identifier: in00004576357