Time in Ecology : : A Theoretical Framework [MPB 61] / / Eric Post.
Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production.Post uses insights from phenology-the study of t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. A Framework for the Role of Time in Ecology
- 1. What Is Time?
- 2. Phenological Advance, Stasis, and Delay
- 3. Ecological Time
- 4. The Phenological Niche
- 5. The Phenological Community
- 6. Use of Time in the Phenology of Horizontal Species Interactions 107 Timing and Duration: Responses to Potentially Distinct
- 7. Use of Time in the Phenology of Vertical Species Interactions
- 8. Limitations and Extension to Tropical Systems
- 9. The More General Role of Time in Ecology
- Appendix A. Online Resources of Relevance to Phenology
- Appendix B. Sources Used in the Meta- analysis in Chapter 2
- References
- Index