The impact of environmental variability on ecological systems

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McCann, Kevin S. [ (Kevin Shear)] , 1964- (Author), Vasseur, David Alan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer , c2007
Series:The Peter Yodzis fundamental ecology series v. 2
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. El Nino and La Nina: Physical mechanisms and climate impacts
  • 2. How do scale and sampling resolution affect perceived ecological variability and redness?
  • 3. Assessing the impact of environmental variability on trophic systems using an Allometric frequency-resolved approach
  • 4. Filtering environmental variability: Activity optimization, thermal refuges, and the energetic responses of endotherms to temperature
  • 5. Environment forcing populations
  • 6. Interaction assessments in correlated and autocorrelated environments
  • 7. Specialist-generalist competition in variable environments; the consequences of competition between resources
  • 8. Environmental variability modulates the insurance effects of diversity in non-equilibrium communities
  • 9. Effects of environmental variability on ecological communities: Testing the insurance hypothesis of biodiversity in aquatic microcosms
  • 10. Environmental variability and the Antartic marine ecosystem