Ecology : from individuals to ecosystems / Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend.
By: Begon, Michael [author.]
.Contributor(s): Townsend, Colin R [author.].Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey ; Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021Edition: Fifth edition.Description: xiii, 844 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781119279358; 9781119279310; 9781119279372.Subject(s): EcologyDDC classification: 577 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 577 BEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018923 |
Previous edition: Malden: Blackwell, 2006.
Preface -- Introduction : ecology and its domain -- Organisms in their environments : the evolutionary backdrop -- Conditions -- Resources -- Matters of life and death -- Intraspecific competition -- Movement and metapopulations -- Life history ecology and evolution -- Interspecific competition -- The nature of predation -- The population dynamics of predation -- Decomposers and detritivores -- Parasitism and disease -- Facilitation : mutualism and commensalism -- Abundance -- Pest control, harvesting and conservation -- Community modules and the structure of ecological communities -- Food webs -- Patterns in species composition in space and time -- Patterns in biodiversity and their conservation -- The flux of energy through ecosystems -- The flux of matter through ecosystems -- Ecology in a changing world -- References -- Organism index -- Subject index.