COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: PATTERN AND PROCESS
Written by Jiro Kikkawa, Derek J. Anderson
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications
in 1986
ISBN: 0867932724
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COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: PATTERN AND PROCESS
Written by Jiro Kikkawa, Derek J. Anderson.
Stock no. 1710836
1st.
1986.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
A fresh and critical look by an international team of authors, each a leading authority in their specialist field, at major patterns and processes that underlie all community organization. Edited by Jiro Kikkawa and Derek J. Anderson. Pictorial cardwraps. xi and 432 pages including index. ISBN: 0867932724. Initials in ink to top corner of half-title page. Text block slightly browned. Page 267 & 268 have red biro markings in the margin (to highlight a particular paragraph to previous owner). Else a nice copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Part 1. Introduction
- 1. Development of concepts
- Part 2. Limits of Communities
- 2. Chaos or order - organization
- 3. Biotope structure and patterning
- 4. Complexity, diversity and stability
- Part 3. Community Organization
- 5. Guilds and their utility in ecology
- 6. Resource partitioning
- 7. Trophic relations of decomposers
- Part 4. Ecological Processes
- 8. The organization of herbivore communities
- 9. Communities of parasites
- 10. Prey-predator interactions
- 11. The analysis of competition by field experiments
- 12. Ecological succession
- Part 5. Evolutionary Processes
- 13. Arms races and covenants: the evolution of parasite communities
- 14. Evolution in communities
- 15. Living with rainforest: the human dimension