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Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Elsevier Science | 2019
ISBN13: 9780128160138
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Although biologists recognize evolutionary ecology by name, many only have a limited understanding of its conceptual roots and historical development. Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology fills that knowledge gap in a thought-provoking and readable format.

Written by a world-renowned evolutionary ecologist, this book embodies a unique blend of expertise in combining theory and experiment, population genetics and ecology. Following an easily-accessible structure, this book encapsulates and chronologizes the history behind evolutionary ecology. It also focuses on the integration of age-structure and density-dependent selection into an understanding of life-history evolution.

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ISBN13:9780128160138
Taal:Engels
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<p>1 1859 AND IN THE BEGINNING..</p> <p>2 1894 MEASURING SELECTION IN NATURE</p> <p>3 1920 A THEORY OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT POPULATION GROWTH IS FORMULATED</p> <p>4 1928 SELECTION IN AGE-STRUCTURED POPULATIONS</p> <p>5 1930 THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF NATURAL SELECTION</p> <p>6 1930 EVOLUTION OF MIMICRY</p> <p>7 1930 FLUCTUATION IN NUMBERS AND GENOTYPES</p> <p>8 1934 COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION</p> <p>9 1940 THE COMMON GARDEN EXPERIMENT</p> <p>10 1943 SEASONAL CHANGES OF GENE REGIONS IN NATURAL POPULATIONS</p> <p>11 1947 THE ROLE OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AS AN AGENT FOR ADAPTATION TO VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTS IS PROPOSED</p> <p>12 1947 MEASURING SELECTION AND DRIFT IN A NATURAL POPULATION</p> <p>13 1954 COLE’S PARADOX</p> <p>14 1954 LACK’S PRINCIPLE</p> <p>15 1956 CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT</p> <p>16 1958 NICHE PARTITIONING BY WARBLER BIRDS</p> <p>17 1961 POPULATION REGULATION AND GENETIC FEEDBACKS</p> <p>18 1962 ECOLOGICAL MEASURES OF FITNESS</p> <p>19 1962 GROUP SELECTION</p> <p>20 1964 COMMUNITY EVOLUTION</p> <p>21 1964 KIN SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR</p> <p>22 1965 EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN PLANTS</p> <p>23 1965 FITNESS ESTIMATION</p> <p>24 1966 THE CONCEPT OF ENERGETIC TRADE-OFFS</p> <p>25 1966 EVOLUTION OF DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS</p> <p>26 1966 OPTIMAL FORAGING BASED ON TIME AND ENERGY</p> <p>27 1966 EVOLUTION OF A PLANT ANIMAL MUTUALISM</p> <p>28 1967 EVOLUTION FOLLOWING COLONIZATION</p> <p>29 1968 COLE’S PARADOX RESOLVED BY ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION</p> <p>30 1968 EVOLUTION IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS</p> <p>31 1969 THE POLYGYNY THRESHOLD MODEL</p> <p>32 1970 REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT AND THE LIFE HISTORY SCHEDULE</p> <p>33 1970 THE PRICE EQUATION</p> <p>34 1971 POPULATION GENETIC THEORY OF DENSITY-DEPEDENT NATURAL SELECTION</p> <p>35 1971 THE EVOLUTION OF HEAVY METAL TOLERANCE</p> <p>36 1973 THE RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS</p> <p>37 1973 THE EVOLUTION OF MELANISM</p> <p>38 1975 SEX AND EVOLUTION</p> <p>39 1975 GENETICS OF MIMICRY</p> <p>40 1976 EVOLUTION OF RESOURCE PARTITIONING</p> <p>41 1977 LIFE HISTORY THEORY CHALLANGED</p> <p>42 1977 NATURAL SELECTION FAVORS REDUCED VARIANCE IN FITNESS</p> <p>43 1978 MAINTENANCE OF PROTEIN POLYMORPHISMS IN A VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT</p> <p>44 1979 A CRITIQUE OF THE ADAPTATIONIST PROGRAM</p> <p>45 1980 EVOLUTION OF PHILOPATRY</p> <p>46 1981 TESTING DENSITY-DEPENDENT NAURAL SELECTION</p> <p>47 1981 EVOLUTION OF POPULATION STABILITY: THEORY</p> <p>48 1982 LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION IN NATURE</p> <p>49 1982 EVOLUTION OF VIRULENCE</p> <p>50 1984 EVOLUTION OF AGE-SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF SURVIVAL AND FECUNDITY</p> <p>51 1985 EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY THEORY</p> <p>52 1985 COEVOLUTION OF BACTERIA AND PHAGE</p> <p>53 1986 EVOLUTION OF DARWIN’S FINCHES</p> <p>54 1986 EVOLUTION ACROSS THREE TROPHIC LEVELS</p> <p>55 1988 EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE ABILITY</p> <p>56 1990 A PREDATOR-PREY ARMS RACE</p> <p>57 1990 REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT AND THE BALANCE BETWEEN EGG NUMBER AND EGG SIZE</p> <p>58 1991 EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION</p> <p>59 1994 EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE ROLE OF NATURAL SELECTION IN THE PROCESS OF CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT</p> <p>60 1994 THE GEOGRAPHIC MOSAIC THEORY OF COEVOLUTION</p> <p>61 1996 COMMUNITY EVOLUTION DUE TO INDIRECT EFFECTS</p> <p>62 1996 TESTS OF ADAPTIVE PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN PLANTS</p> <p>63 1997 EVOLUTION OF SPECIES’RANGE - THEORY</p> <p>64 2000 EVOLUTION OF POPULATION STABILITY: EXPERIMENTS</p> <p>65 2004 COEVOLUTION OVER SPACE AND TIME</p>
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