Ecological niches [electronic resource] : linking classical and contemporary approaches / Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Interspecific interactionsPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.Description: ix, 212 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 577.8/2 21
LOC classification:
  • QH546.3 .C53 2003eb
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Contents:
1. Introduction : history, context, and purpose -- 2. Revising the niche concept : definitions and mechanistic models -- 3. Comparing classical and contemporary niche theory -- 4. Designs and limitations of empirical approaches to the niche -- 5. Incorporating biological complexities -- 6. Environmental variability in time and space -- 7. Species sorting in communities -- 8. Community succession, assembly, and biodiversity -- 9. Niche relations within ecosystems -- 10. The evolutionary niche -- 11. Conclusions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-205).

1. Introduction : history, context, and purpose -- 2. Revising the niche concept : definitions and mechanistic models -- 3. Comparing classical and contemporary niche theory -- 4. Designs and limitations of empirical approaches to the niche -- 5. Incorporating biological complexities -- 6. Environmental variability in time and space -- 7. Species sorting in communities -- 8. Community succession, assembly, and biodiversity -- 9. Niche relations within ecosystems -- 10. The evolutionary niche -- 11. Conclusions.

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