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Ecology : achievement and challenge : the 41st Symposium of the British Ecological Society jointly sponsored by the Ecological Society of America, held at Orlando, Florida, USA 10-13 April 2000
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- edited by Malcolm C. Press, Nancy J. Huntly and Simon Levin
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- English
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- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2001
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- xi, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780632058785, 0632058781, 9780632058792, 063205879X
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- ocm45799693
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. 1. Evolution and population biology. 1. Genetics and ecology / L. Partridge. 2. Testing Antonovics' five tenets of ecological genetics: experiments with bacteria at the interface of ecology and genetics / R. E. Lenski. 3. Sociality and population dynamics / T. H. Clutton-Brock. 4. Studies of the reproduction, longevity and movements of individual animals / I. Newton -- Pt. 2. Functional and community ecology. 5. Specificity, links and networks in the control of diversity in plant and microbial communities / A. H. Fitter. 6. Global change and the linkages between physiological ecology and ecosystem ecology / J. R. Ehleringer, T. E. Cerling and L. B. Flanagan. 7. Biodiversity, ecosystem processes and climate change / J. H. Lawton. 8. Plant functional types, communities and ecosystems / J. P. Grime. 9. Effects of diversity and composition on grassland stability and productivity / D. Tilman -- Pt. 3. Ecology of changing environments. 10. Climate change and steady state in temperate hardwood forests / M. B. Davis. 11. Experimental plant ecology: some lessons from global change research / Ch. Korner. 12. Keeping track of carbon flows between biosphere and atmosphere / J. Grace, P. Meir and Y. Malhi. 13. Climate and plants: past, present and future interactions / F. I. Woodward -- Pt. 4. Ecosystems, management and human impacts. 14. Lost linkages and lotic ecology: rediscovering small streams / J. L. Meyer and J. B. Wallace. 15. Plant-mammal interactions: lessons for our understanding of nature, and implications for biodiversity conservation / R. Dirzo. 16. Ecological economic theory for managing ecosystem services / J. Roughgarden and P. R. Armsworth. 17. Alternate states of ecosystems: evidence and some implications / S. R. Carpenter -- Concluding remarks / J. H. Brown