Ecology

From Individuals to Ecosystems

Michael Begon, Colin Townsend, John Harper

752 pages, parution le 21/07/2005 (4^eme édition)

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"Begon, Townsend and Harper has been the standard advanced textbook in ecology for nearly 20 years. I greatly welcome this fourth edition, which maintains the book's position at the forefront of the discipline."

Professor Sir John Lawton, Chairman, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and formerly Chief Executive of the UK Natural Environment Research Council

This is the fourth edition of a book that has been widely acknowledged as the higher-level ecology text of choice throughout the world for almost twenty years.

extensively updated with around 750 new references to recent studies
moves from first principles to a vivid reflection of our understanding of ecology in the 21st century
includes three new applied chapters which reflect the coming of age of a rigorous, scientific approach to the ecological problems now facing mankind
this new edition has been carefully edited and designed to ensure it is focused and accessible to students
suppported by a website featuring the artwork and glossary from the book.

L'auteur - Michael Begon

Born in London in 1951 and a student at the University of Leeds, Mike Begon has spent his whole scientific career at the University of Liverpool, where he is now Professor of Ecology, specializing in the population and community ecology of infectious diseases in wildlife.

L'auteur - Colin Townsend

Colin Townsend obtained his DPhil at the University of Sussex before taking up teaching positions at Oxford University and the University of East Anglia. In 1989 he moved from the UK to New Zealand to the University of Otago where he was chair of the Zoology Department, and is now Director of the Ecology, Conservation and Biodiversity Research Group. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997.

L'auteur - John Harper

John Harper is an award-winning biologist and a leading figure in plant population biology. He has served as a council member of the fellowship of the Royal Society and received the Darwin Award in 1990. He is also the author of Population Biology of Plants and co-author of Essentials of Ecology.

Sommaire

Part 1. Organisms
- Organisms in their environments: the evolutionary backdrop
- Conditions
- Resources
- Life, death and life histories
- Intraspecific competition
- Dispersal, dormancy and metapopulations
- Ecological applications at the level of organisms and single-species populations
Part 2. Species Interactions
- Interspecific competition
- The nature of predation
- The population dynamics of predation
- Decomposers and detritivores
- Parasitism and disease
- Symbiosis and mutualism
- Abundance
- Ecological applications at the level of population interactions
Part 3. Communities and Ecosystems
- The nature of the community
- The flux of energy through ecosystems
- The flux of matter through ecosystems
- The influence of population interactions on community structure
- Food webs
- Patterns in species richness
- Ecological applications at the level of communities and ecosystems

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Éditeur(s)	Blackwell
Auteur(s)	Michael Begon, Colin Townsend, John Harper
Parution	21/07/2005
Édition	4^eme édition
Nb. de pages	752
Format	22,5 x 26,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	2180g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9781405111171
ISBN13	978-1-4051-1117-1