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Community Ecology

ISBN: 9781405124119 | 1405124113

Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 8/22/2011

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

This is one of our standard textbooks which sells well to the upper level undergraduate market for community ecology and population and community ecology courses. This book is the market leader in the field with lecturers in the US and UK both preferring this text to any of the competition. Published in 1999, it has sold 4695 copies to the end of July but its MAT has now dropped to around 650 as it is getting out of date. Community ecology is a dynamic field with lots of recent advances and Peter Morin is planning on bringing the book right up ... MOREto date, revising each chapter carefully, adding new material and updating all the references. Two chapters, Food Webs and Causes and Consequences of Diversity will be extensively revised to account for rapid recent changes in these areas. He is also intending to put together a CD ROM / website that will include some working models. This will help explain the modelling sections which are the hardest for the students to understand and be a great teaching resource.

All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations of natural history, statistical descriptions of natural patterns, laboratory and field experiments, and mathematical modelling. Community patterns arise from a complex assortment of processes including competition, predation, mutualism, indirect effects, habitat selection, which result in the most complex biological entities on earth � including iconic systems such as rain forests and coral reefs.

This book introduces the reader to a balanced coverage of concepts and theories central to community ecology, using examples drawn from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems, and focusing on� animal, plant, and microbial species. The historical development of key concepts is described using descriptions of classic studies, while examples of exciting new developments in recent studies are used to point toward future advances in our understanding of community organization. Throughout, there is an emphasis on the crucial interplay between observations, experiments, and mathematical models.

This second updated edition is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and� established scientists� who seek a broad overview of community ecology. The book has developed from a course in community ecology that has been taught by the author since 1983.

Figures and tables can be downloaded for free from www.wiley.com/go/morin/communityecology

Part I: Communities: Basic patterns and elementary processes 1. Communities 2. Competition: Mechanisms, Models and Niches 3. Competition: Experiments, Observations and Null Models 4. Predation and Communities. Empirical Patterns 5. Models of Predation in Simple Communities 6. Food Webs 7. Mutualisms 8. Indirect Effects Part II: Factors Influencing Interactions Among Species 9. Temporal Ptterns: Seasonal Dynamics, Priority Effects and Assembly Rules 10. Habitat Selection 11. Spatial Dynamics, Recruitment-Limited Patterns, and Island Biogeography... MORE

Peter Morin is a leading experimental community ecologist. He is interested in many aspects of community ecology, including predator-prey interactions, food webs, and the causes and consequences of biological diversity.

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