Ecology: Achievement and Challenge 41st Symposium of the British Ecological Society

About this book

Highlighting both the achievements of the past and the challenges of the future, Ecology: Achievement and Challenge, first published in 2001, presents a review of the key ecological issues. Major topics are addressed in evolution and population biology; functional and community ecology; the ecology of changing environments; and the ecology of ecosystems, management and human impacts. It gives an account of key aspects of ecology and of its interfaces with related disciplines, such as genetics and economics. The international team of authors includes some of the most thoughtful ecologists of our time. Ecology: Achievement and Challenge will prove invaluable to both advanced students and researchers in ecology.

Contents

Part I. Evolution and Population Biology:
1. Genetics and ecology L. Partridge
2. Testing Antonovic's five tenets of ecological genetics: experiments with bacteria at the interface of ecology and genetics R. E. Lenski
3. Sociality and population dynamics T. H. Clutton-Brock
4. Studies of the reproduction, longevity and movements of individual animals I. Newton

Part II. Functional and Community Ecology:
5. Specificity, links and networks in the control of diversity in plant and microbial communities A. H. Fitter
6. Global change and the linkages between physiological ecology and ecosystem ecology J. R. Ehleringer, T. E. Cerling and L. B. Flanagan
7. Biodiversity, ecosystem processes and climate change J. H. Lawton
8. Plant functional types, communities and ecosystems J. P. Grime
9. Effects of diversity and composition on grassland stability and productivity D. Tilman

Part III. Ecology of Changing Environments:
10. Climate change and steady state in temperate hardwood forests M. B. Davis
11. Experimental plant ecology: some lessons from global change research Ch. Kørner
12. Keeping track of carbon flows between biosphere and atmosphere J. Grace, P. Meir and Y. Malhi
13. Climate and plants: present and future interactions F. I. Woodward

Part IV. Ecosystems, Management and Human Impacts:
14. Lost linkages and lotic ecology: rediscovering small streams J. L. Meyer and J. B. Wallace
15. Plant-mammal interactions: lessons for our understanding of nature and implications for biodiversity conservation R. Dirzo
16. Ecological economic theory for managing ecosystem services Roughgarden and P. R. Armsworth
17. Alternative states of ecosystems: evidence and some implications S. R. Carpenter

Part V. Concluding Remarks:
18. Concluding remarks J. H. Brown

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Biography

Malcolm Press is Professor in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Nancy Huntly is at the Center for Ecological Research and Education at Idaho State University. Simon Levin is Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University.