Scaling in Ecology with a Model System / / Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Ellison, Aaron M.,; Gotelli, Nicholas J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Population Biology ; 118
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.) :; 95 b/w illus. 24 tables.

A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practiceScale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researchers often find it difficult to find ecological systems that lend themselves to its study. Scaling in Ecology with a Model System synthesizes nearly three decades of research on the ecology of Sarracenia purpurea—the northern pitcher plant—showing how this carnivorous plant and its associated food web of microbes and macrobes can inform the challenging question of scaling in ecology.Drawing on a wealth of findings from their pioneering lab and field experiments, Aaron Ellison and Nicholas Gotelli reveal how the Sarracenia microecosystem has emerged as a model system for experimental ecology. Ellison and Gotelli examine Sarracenia at a hierarchy of spatial scales—individual pitchers within plants, plants within bogs, and bogs within landscapes—and demonstrate how pitcher plants can serve as replicate miniature ecosystems that can be studied in wetlands throughout the United States and Canada. They show how research on the Sarracenia microecosystem proceeds much more rapidly than studies of larger, more slowly changing ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, lakes, or streams, which are more difficult to replicate and experimentally manipulate.Scaling in Ecology with a Model System offers new insights into ecophysiology and stoichiometry, demography, extinction risk and species distribution models, food webs and trophic dynamics, and tipping points and regime shifts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Ecophysiology, Nutrient Limitation, and Stoichiometry -- 2. Context -- 3. The Small World -- 4. Scaling Up -- Part II Demography, Global Change, and Species Distribution Models -- 5. Context -- 6. The Small World -- 7. Scaling Up -- Part III Ecology of the Sarracenia Community -- 8. Context -- 9. The Small World -- 10. Scaling Up -- Part IV Tempests in Teapots -- 11. Context -- 12. The Small World -- 13. Scaling Up -- 14. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix A: The Natural History of Sarracenia and Its Microecosystem -- Appendix B: The Basics of Resource Limitation -- Appendix C: Deterministic Stage-Based Models -- Appendix D: The Basics of Species Distribution Models -- Appendix E: A Brief History and Précis of Methods for Analyzing Ecological Communities -- Appendix F: On Tipping Points and Regime Shifts -- Appendix G: On Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function, and *omics -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Taxonomic Index