The Trophic Cascade in Lakes

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• In this book, a multidisciplinary research team tests this idea by manipulating whole lakes experimentally, and coordinating this with paleolimnologic... Lees meer

Life Strategies of Succulents in Deserts

Dieter J Von Willert, Benno M Eller, Marinus J a Werger

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Deserts provide a seemingly hostile environment in which plants can, nevertheless, survive and grow. This book, originally published in 1992, consider... Lees meer

The Ecological Implications of Body Size

Robert H Peters

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• It is generally recognized that larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, and so on; but it is unusual to see these commonplace obs... Lees meer

Terrestrial Ecosystems in Changing Environments

H H Shugart, Shugart Herman H, Herman H Shugart

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Predicting how terrestrial ecosystems might respond in the future to large-scale human-generated changes is a major challenge for ecologists. In Terre... Lees meer

The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant Mutualisms

Andrew J Beattie

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Mutualistic interactions between ants and plants involve rewards offered by plants and services performed by ants in a mutually advantageous relations... Lees meer

Megaherbivores

R Norman Owen-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The largest land mammals are constrained in their activities by their large body size, a theme that is emphasized in this account of their general eco... Lees meer

The Terrestrial Invasion

Colin Little

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The theme of this book is the invasion of land by animal lines which originated in aquatic environments. It brings together physiological and ecologic... Lees meer

Physiological Ecology of Lichens

Alex Kershaw, Kenneth a Kershaw, Kershaw

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• This book was originally published in 1985. In the twenty years preceding publication very considerable advances were made in our understanding of the... Lees meer

Adaptive Herbivore Ecology

R Norman Owen-Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modelled by conventional... Lees meer

Adaptive Herbivore Ecology

R Norman Owen-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modelled by conventional... Lees meer

Forest Dynamics and Disturbance Regimes

Lee E Frelich

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Lee Frelich provides a major contribution to the study of temperate-zone forest dynamics by considering three important themes: the combined influence... Lees meer

Ecological Experiments

Nelson G Hairston

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Ecological Experiments stresses the importance of manipulative field experimentation in ecology as being superior to the observational method. The boo... Lees meer

Fire and Vegetation Dynamics

Edward A Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• This book assembles the relevant studies of fire intensity, rate of spread, fuel consumption, fire frequency, and fire weather in the North American b... Lees meer

Dynamic Biogeography

R Hengeveld

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Cambridge Studies in Ecology presents balanced, comprehensive, up-to-date, and critical reviews of selected topics within ecology, both botanical and ... Lees meer

Cliff Ecology

Douglas W Larson, Uta Matthes, Peter E Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Cliffs are present in virtually every country on earth. The lack of scientific interest in cliffs to date is in striking contrast to the commonness of... Lees meer

Forest Dynamics and Disturbance Regimes

Lee E Frelich

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Lee Frelich provides a major contribution to the study of temperate-zone forest dynamics by considering three important themes: the combined influence... Lees meer

Microbial Ecology

Heinz Stolp

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The rapid expansion od industry and the excessive demands made on limited natural resources have caused genuine concern at all levels of society. In t... Lees meer

Climate and Plant Distribution

F I Woodward

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The central thesis for plant ecology is that climate exerts the dominant control on the distribution of the major vegetation types of the world. This ... Lees meer

Evolution and Ecology

K D Bennett, Bennett K D

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The mechanisms of macroevolutionary change are a contentious issue. Paleoecological evidence, presented in this book, shows that evolutionary processe... Lees meer

Spatial Pattern Analysis in Plant Ecology

Mark R T Dale, Dale Mark R T

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• The predictability of the physical arrangement of plants, at whatever scale it is viewed, is referred to as a spatial pattern. Spatial pattern is a cr... Lees meer

Adaptive Herbivore Ecology

Norman Owen-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• An innovative connection between adaptive behavior and community ecology in herbivores The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and geo- graph... Lees meer

Terrestrial Ecosystems in Changing Environments

Herman H. Shugart

• Hardcover | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• A unique review of the problem of predicting the response of ecosystems to changed conditions. Lees meer

The Ecology of Recently-Deglaciated Terrain

John A Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• This book provides the first comprehensive review of the available information on the ecology of recently-deglaciated terrain and critically evaluates... Lees meer

The Ecology of the Nitrogen Cycle

Janet I Sprent

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Ecology
• Many people learn the rudiments of the nitrogen cycle while at school. However, the details of the various processes in the cycle and their magnitude ... Lees meer