Population Biology : : Retrospect and Prospect / / ed. by Charles E. King, Peter S. Dawson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Wyatt W.,; Berven, Keith A .,; Dawson, Peter S.,; Gill, Douglas E.,; Hebert, Paul D. N.,; Istock, Conrad A.,; Koehn, Richard K.,; Levin, Donald A.,; Mock, Beverly A .,; Powell, Jeffrey R .,; Riddle, Russel A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dawson, Peter S.,; King, Charles E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

A collection of essays from the Biology Colloquium that evaluates the state of research in the areas of union between population genetics and ecology through a collection of synopses on the current research of a group of empiricists.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: A Fable Being a Historical Note on the Origin of Population Biology
• 1. The Environmental Component of Evolutionary Biology
• 2. Clonal Diversity in Cladoceran Populations
• 3. The Extent and Consequences of Heritable Variation for Fitness Characters
• 4. Measuring Genetic Variation in Natural Populations: Where Are We?
• 5. The Biochemical and Physiological Bases of Aminopeptidase-I (Lap) Polymorphism in Mytllus edulis
• 6. Genetic Variation, Environmental Heterogeneity, and Evolutionary Stability
• 7. Plant Parentage: An Alternate View of the Breeding Structure of Populations
• 8. Achieving Synthesis in Population Biology
• Biology Colloquium Roundtable Discussion
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• The Contributors