Ecology. Michael Begon

17: Food Webs 17.1 Food chains 17.2 Food web structure, productivity and stability 17.3 Regime shifts

      24  Chapter 18: Patterns in Community Composition in Space and Time 18.1 Introduction 18.2 Description of community composition 18.3 Community patterns in space 18.4 Community patterns in time 18.5 The mechanisms underlying succession 18.6 Communities in a spatiotemporal context 18.7 The metacommunity concept

      25  Chapter 19: Patterns in Biodiversity and their Conservation 19.1 Introduction 19.2 A simple model of species richness 19.3 Spatially varying factors that influence species richness 19.4 Temporally varying factors that influence species richness 19.5 Habitat area and remoteness: island biogeography 19.6 Gradients of species richness 19.7 Selecting areas for conservation 19.8 Managing for multiple objectives – beyond biodiversity conservation

      26  Chapter 20: The Flux of Energy through Ecosystems 20.1 Introduction 20.2 Patterns in primary productivity 20.3 Factors limiting primary productivity in terrestrial communities 20.4 Factors limiting primary productivity in aquatic communities 20.5 The fate of energy in ecosystems

      27  Chapter 21: The Flux of Matter through Ecosystems 21.1 Introduction 21.2 Nutrient budgets in terrestrial communities 21.3 Nutrient budgets in aquatic communities 21.4 Global biogeochemical cycles

      28  Chapter 22: Ecology in a Changing World 22.1 Introduction 22.2 Climate change 22.3 Acidification 22.4 Land‐system change 22.5 Pollution 22.6 Overexploitation 22.7 Invasions 22.8 Planetary boundaries 22.9 Finale

      29  References

      30  Organism Index

      31  Subject Index

      32  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Estimated annual costs (billions of US dollars) associated with damage ...

      2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Two cohort life tables for the annual plant Gilia capitata. One is for ...Table 4.2 A cohort life table for female yellow‐bellied marmots, Marmota flaviven...Table 4.3 A cohort life table and a fecundity schedule for the barnacle Balanus g...

      3 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Competition between Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum in a range of c...

      4 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Cotton rats benefit from an improved quality of their diet. The respon...Table 10.2 Generalist predators can be effective in pest control. A summary of ma...Table 10.3 Factors determining patterns in baboon foraging. The estimated paramet...

      5 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Summary statistics for date of first appearance of insects on a ‘corps...

      6 Chapter 13Table 13.1 Functions and products of rumen bacteria. A number of the bacterial sp...Table 13.2 Numbers of plant and fungal species forming arbuscular mycorrhiza, ect...Table 13.3 Selected examples of anticancer activity of lichen secondary metabolit...

      7 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Key factor (or key phase) analysis for wood frog populations from thre...Table 14.2 Key factor analysis and λ‐contribution analysis for red deer....

      8 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Comparison, based on various literature sources, between aspects of th...Table 15.2 An example of a projection matrix for a particular Silene regia popula...

      9 Chapter 18Table 18.1 Seasonal patterns in bare space and species richness on boulders in ea...Table 18.2 Measures of area, perimeter and perimeter: area ratio. Values used for...Table 18.3 Contrasting features of three mangrove species. Initial size, and grow...Table 18.4 Reoccupation patterns of reef fish after a resident dies. Numbers of i...

      10 Chapter 19Table 19.1 The slopes of species–area relationships are typically steeper for isl...Table 19.2 Activities permitted or prohibited for different levels of protection ...

      11 Chapter 20Table 20.1 Net primary production (NPP) per year for major biomes and for the pla...

      12 Chapter 21Table 21.1 Global mean (± SE) carbon pools and fluxes in managed and unmanaged fo...Table 21.2 Sources of nitrogen for three continental shelf areas. Atmospheric dep...

      13 Chapter 22Table 22.1 Critical earth‐system processes, their control variables, proposed pla...

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 The fathers of evolution. (a) Charles Darwin. Detail