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Title: Spatial Ecology by David Tilman, Peter Kareiva ISBN: 0-691-01652-6 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Summary: Space, the final frontier
Comment: Spatial Ecology deals with the relatively recent concentration on spatial heterogeneity in ecology. Sptial heterogeneity is important since we know that habitat fragmentation has major effects on the world biota. Predicting the abundance and distribution of organisms is crucial if we are to predict which species are to become endangered by such processes as habitat loss and habitat fragmentation. This book tends to concentrate on the theoretical aspects of spatial ecology partly because large scale experiments are difficult to perform and partly because the recent increase in computer power has lead to an explosion of spatially extended models of population dynamics. This book is therefore aimed at primarily the postgraduate student and beyond, but should provide some insight for the advanced undergraduate too. Apart from the computer models, there are several mathematical models presented, including diffusion models for invasive species and the new method of moment dynamics which provides an analytical approximation to individual-based models. A basic understanding of mathematics will therefore help but is not essential. 'Spatial Ecology' is an edited book with contributions from many leading researchers in the field such as Tilman, Kareiva, Levins, Pacala, Lewis. As such one might expect the book to be a little disjointed, but the editors have kept the flow going with previews and summaries of each set of chapters. All in all an excellent book for recent advances in spatial ecology theory.
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Title: The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography by Stephen P. Hubbell ISBN: 0691021287 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process by Monica Turner, R. H. Gardner, R. V. O'Neill ISBN: 0387951237 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Empirical Progress and Theoretical Extensions. by Ann P. Kinzig, David Tilman, Stephen Pacala ISBN: 0691088225 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Metapopulation Ecology (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) by Iikka Hanski, Ilkka A. Hanski ISBN: 0198540655 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Species Diversity in Space and Time by Michael L. Rosenzweig ISBN: 0521499526 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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