Ecology. Michael Begon

      

      Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Dedication Page

      5  Preface A science for everybody – but not an easy science Thirty‐four years on: the urgent problems facing us About this fifth edition Technical and pedagogical features Acknowledgments

      6  Introduction: Ecology and its Domain Definition and scope of ecology Explanation, description, prediction and control Pure and applied ecology

      7  Chapter 1: Organisms in their Environments: the Evolutionary Backdrop 1.1 Introduction: natural selection and adaptation 1.2 Specialisation within species 1.3 Speciation 1.4 The role of historical factors in the determination of species distributions 1.5 The match between communities and their environments 1.6 The diversity of matches within communities

      8  Chapter 2: Conditions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Ecological niches 2.3 Responses of individuals to temperature 2.4 Correlations between temperature and the distribution of plants and animals 2.5 pH of soil and water 2.6 Salinity 2.7 Hazards, disasters and catastrophes: the ecology of extreme events 2.8 Environmental pollution 2.9 Global change

      9  Chapter 3: Resources 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Radiation 3.3 Water 3.4 Carbon dioxide 3.5 Mineral nutrients 3.6 Oxygen – and its alternatives 3.7 Organisms as food resources 3.8 A classification of resources, and the ecological niche 3.9 A metabolic theory of ecology

      10  Chapter 4: Matters of Life and Death 4.1 An ecological fact of life 4.2 Individuals 4.3 Counting individuals 4.4 Life cycles 4.5 Dormancy 4.6 Monitoring birth and death: life tables, survivorships curves and fecundity schedules 4.7 Reproductive rates, generation lengths and rates of increase 4.8 Population projection models

      11  Chapter 5: Intraspecific Competition 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Intraspecific competition, and density‐dependent mortality, fecundity and growth 5.3 Quantifying intraspecific competition 5.4 Intraspecific competition and the regulation of population size 5.5 Mathematical models: introduction 5.6 A model with discrete breeding seasons 5.7 Continuous breeding: the logistic equation 5.8 Individual differences: asymmetric competition 5.9 Self‐thinning

      12  Chapter 6: Movement and Metapopulations 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Patterns of migration 6.3 Modes of dispersal 6.4 Patterns of dispersion 6.5 Variation in dispersal within populations 6.6 The demographic significance of dispersal 6.7 The dynamics of metapopulations

      13  Chapter 7: Life History Ecology and Evolution 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The components of life histories 7.3 Trade‐offs 7.4 Life histories and habitats 7.5 The size and number of offspring