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Evolutionary Ecology

by: Pianka, Eric R.

Evolutionary Ecology

by: Pianka, Eric R.

ISBN 13:
9780321042880
ISBN 10:
0321042883
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings

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Summary

This classic text presents a unique evolutionary approach to ecology. The entire text has been improved, updated, and extensively reorganized and a new chapter (16) has been added. The Sixth Edition reflects the extent to which humans now dominate ecosystems, with anthropogenic (human) effects interwoven into every chapter.

Preface

xii

Background

(15)

Scaling in Biology

(1)

Scientific Methods and Human Knowledge

(3)

Domain of Ecology: Definitions and Groundwork

(3)

The Urgency of Basic Ecological Research

(2)

Natural Selection

(2)

Levels of Approach in Biology

(1)

Debates and Progress in Ecology

(3)

History and Biogeography

(13)

Self-Replicating Molecular Assemblages

(1)

The Geological Past

(5)

Classical Biogeography

(2)

Continental Drift

(5)

Meteorology

(19)

Earth's Physical Environment

(1)

Major Determinants of Climate

(5)

Local Perturbations

(2)

Variations in Time and Space

(5)

Global Weather Modification

(6)

Climate and Vegetation

(22)

Plant Life Forms and Biomes

(1)

Microclimate

(4)

Primary Production and Evapotranspiration

(5)

Soil Formation and Primary Succession

(3)

Ecotones and Vegetational Continua

(2)

Classification of Natural Communities

(2)

Aquatic Ecosystems

(5)

Resource Acquisition and Allocation

(40)

Limiting Factors and Tolerance Curves

(2)

Resource Budgets and the Principle of Allocation

(1)

Time, Matter, and Energy Budgets

(2)

Leaf Tactics

(3)

Foraging Tactics and Feeding Efficiency

(5)

Physiological Ecology

(1)

Physiological Optima and Tolerance Curves

(2)

Energetics of Metabolism and Movement

(4)

Adaptation and Deterioration of Environment

(3)

Heat Budgets and Thermal Ecology

(4)

Water Economy in Desert Organisms

(1)

Other Limiting Materials

(1)

Sensory Capacities and Environmental Cues

(1)

Adaptive Suites

100

(3)

Design Constraints

103

(7)

Rules of Inheritance

110

(14)

Basic Mendelian Genetics

110

(5)

Nature versus Narture

115

(1)

Selfish Genes

116

(1)

Population Genetics

117

(1)

Maintenance of Variability

118

(2)

Units of Selection

120

(2)

Genetic Engineering

122

(2)

Evolution and Natural Selection

124

(10)

Agents of Evolution

124

(1)

Types of Natural Selection

124

(2)

Ecological Genetics

126

(1)

Allopatric and Sympatric Speciation

127

(1)

Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms

128

(1)

Galapagos Finches

129

(5)

Vital Statistics of Populations

134

(43)

Individuals Versus Populations

134

(1)

Life Tables and Tables of Reproduction

135

(7)

Net Reproductive Rate and Reproductive Value

142

(5)

Stable Age Distribution

147

(1)

Leslie Matrices

148

(2)

Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase

150

(3)

Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity

153

(1)

Evolution of Reproductive Tactics

154

(1)

Reproductive Effort

155

(5)

Expenditure per Progeny

160

(3)

Patterns in Avian Clutch Sizes

163

(6)

Evolution of Death Rates and Old Age

169

(2)

Joint Evolution of Rates of Reproduction and Mortality

171

(6)

Population Growth and Regulation

177

(23)

Verhulst-Pearl Logistic Equation

177

(5)

Derivtion of the Logistic Equation

182

(1)

Density Dependence and Density Independence

182

(2)

Opportunistic versus Equilibrium Populations

184

(4)

Population Regulation

188

(5)

Population ``Cycles'': Cause and Effect

193

(7)

Sociality

200

(28)

Use of Space: Home Range and Territoriality

200

(3)

Sex

203

(4)

Sex Ratio

207

(4)

Sexual Selection and Mating Systems

211

(9)

Fitness and an Individual's Status in Its Population

220

(1)

Social Behavior and Kin Selection

220

(5)

The Evolution of Self-Deceipt

225

(3)

Interactions Between Populations

228

(12)

Direct Interactions

228

(1)

Complex Population Interactions

229

(2)

Mutualistic Interactions and Symbiotic Relationships

231

(5)

Indirect Interactions

236

(4)

Competition

240

(27)

Mechanisms of Competition

240

(1)

Lotka-Volterra Competition Equations

241

(7)

Competitive Exclusion

248

(1)

Balance Between Intraspecific and Interspecific Competition

249

(3)

Evolutionary Consequences of Competition

252

(1)

Laboratory Experiments

252

(2)

Evidence from Nature

254

(10)

Other Prospects

264

(3)

The Ecological Niche

267

(27)

History and Definitions

267

(2)

The Hypervolume Model

269

(2)

Niche Overlap and Competition

271

(3)

Niche Dynamics

274

(1)

Niche Dimensionality

275

(4)

Niche Breadth

279

(10)

Evolution of Niches

289

(5)

Experimental Ecology

294

(8)

Design of Experiments

294

(1)

Ecological Experiments

294

(5)

A Defaunation Experiment

299

(3)

Predation and Parasitism

302

(35)

Predation

302

(2)

Predator-Prey Oscillations

304

(8)

``Prudent'' Predation and Optimal Yield

312

(1)

Selected Experiments and Observations

313

(2)

Evolutionary Consequences: Prey Escape Tactics

315

(7)

Parasitism

322

(4)

Epidemiology

326

(2)

Darwinian Medicine

328

(1)

Coevolution

329

(8)

Phylogenetics in Ecology

337

(8)

Phylogenetic Systematics

337

(1)

Vicariance Biogeography

338

(1)

Phylogeny and the Modern Comparative Method

338

(2)

Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts

340

(1)

Evolutionary Ecomorphology

341

(4)

Community and Ecosystem Ecology

345

(43)

Systems and Macrodescriptors

345

(2)

Systems Ecology

347

(1)

Compartmentation

348

(4)

The Community Matrix

352

(3)

Biogeochemical Cycles in Ecosystems

355

(1)

Principles of Thermodynamics

356

(2)

Pyramids of Energy, Numbers, and Biomass

358

(1)

Energy Flow and Ecological Energetics

359

(4)

Secondary Succession

363

(3)

Evolutionary Convergence and Ecological Equivalence

366

(2)

Community Evolution

368

(1)

Pseudocommunities

369

(10)

Landscape Ecology and Macroecology

379

(9)

Biodiversity and Community Stability

388

(25)

Saturation with Individuals and with Species

388

(2)

Species Diversity

390

(4)

Latitudinal Gradients in Diversity

394

(9)

Types of Stability

403

(3)

Community Stability

406

(7)

Island Biogeography and Conservation Biology

413

(18)

Species-Area Relationships

414

(2)

Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography

416

(4)

Islands as Ecological Experiments: Some Examples

420

(2)

The Taxon Cycle

422

(2)

Experimental Biogeography

424

(1)

Conservation Biology

424

(7)

References

431

(74)

Index

505

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