Evolutionary Community Ecology (eBook)

Mark A. McPeek (Autor)

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2017
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8821-4 (ISBN)

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Mark A. McPeek is the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College.

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Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them. All species engage in interactions with many other species, and these interactions regulate their abundance, define their trajectories of natural selection, and shape their movement decisions. Mark McPeek synthesizes the ecological and evolutionary dynamics generated by species interactions that structure local biological communities and regional metacommunities.McPeek explores the ecological performance characteristics needed for invasibility and coexistence of species in complex networks of species interactions. This species interaction framework is then extended to examine the ecological dynamics of natural selection that drive coevolution of interacting species in these complex interaction networks. The models of natural selection resulting from species interactions are used to evaluate the ecological conditions that foster diversification at multiple trophic levels. Analyses show that diversification depends on the ecological context in which species interactions occur and the types of traits that define the mechanisms of those species interactions. Lastly, looking at the mechanisms of speciation that affect species richness and diversity at various spatial scales and the consequences of past climate change over the Quaternary period, McPeek considers how metacommunity structure is shaped at regional and biogeographic scales.Integrating evolutionary theory into the study of community ecology, Evolutionary Community Ecology provides a new framework for predicting how communities are organized and how they may change over time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2017
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• Zusatzinfo: 56 line illus. 4 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Abiotic component • Adaptation • allopatric speciation • apex predator • Assortative Mating • balancing selection • biodiversity • biogeographic mixing • biogeography • Biological interaction • biologist • Biomass (ecology) • birth rate • character displacement • Charles Darwin • climate change • Coevolution • Coexistence • Community • community ecology • community mixing • community module • community structure • Competition • conservation biology • Density dependence • Directionality (molecular biology) • Directional selection • Dispersal • diversity index • Drosophila • Ecological Analysis • ecological community • ecological differentiation • ecological opportunity • Ecological selection • ecological speciation • Ecological Succession • Ecology • endemism • environmental factor • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary dynamics • evolutionary ecology • extinction • Fisherian runaway • Fitness • Fitness (biology) • fitness landscape • foraging • founder effect • frequency-dependent selection • functional response • Gene dosage • Gene Flow • Genetic architecture • genetic correlation • genetic drift • Genetics • genetic structure • genomics • Genotype • Genotype-phenotype distinction • group selection • Habitat alteration • heterotroph • Hybrid (biology) • Hybrid inviability • Hybrid speciation • Hybrid zone • interaction network • Intraguild predation • invasibility • Invasion • Invasive species • Local adaptation • Macroecology • macroevolution • Marine Biology • mating • mating call • Meiosis • metacommunity • microevolution • molecular phylogenetics • mutualism • Mutualism (biology) • Natural selection • neutral species • New species • Niche differentiation • Omnivory • paleobiology • Parapatric speciation • Peripatric speciation • Phenotype • Phenotypic plasticity • Phenotypic trait • Phylogenetics • Phylogeny • phylogeography • Population cycle • population dynamics • Population Ecology • Population Genetics • Population Size • predation • Predator • Prey • quantum evolution • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • resource competition • seed predation • Segregate (taxonomy) • Sexual Selection • spatial ecology • Speciation • species • species complex • Species distribution • species diversity • species interaction • Stephen P. Hubbell • Sympatric speciation • Taxon • Territory (animal) • Trait • trophic interaction • Trophic level
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8821-2 / 1400888212
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8821-4 / 9781400888214