The Pattern Of Animal Communities
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The Pattern of Animal Communities
Author | : C. S. Elton |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789400958722 |
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THE ECOLOGICAL SURVEY on which this book is based began to be planned in 1942, and since 1945 has been mainly centred upon Oxford University's estate at Wytham Woods, where a rich series of habitats from open ground and limestone to woodland with many springs and marshes interspersed occupies a hill set in riverine surroundings. Here biological research workers from the University have accumulated a considerable body of knowledge, some of which I have arranged in a general setting that allows one to comprehend some of the inter-related parts of the whole system. It is also intended to provide a framework for understanding animal communities elsewhere. The ecological inquirer is, more than most scien tific people, apt to fmd himself lost in a large labyrinth of interrelations and variables. The dictionary defmes a labyrinth as 'an intricate structure of inter communicating passages, through which it is difficult to fmd one's way without a clue'. This could equally be a figurative description of plant and animal communi ties. The present book seeks to provide a plan of construction of the labyrinth and a few new clues that may help the inquirer to know where he is on the gene ral ecological map. In presenting this blue-print of animal communities I have avoided giving long lists of species such as the botanist, with his smaller kingdom, can handle fairly well.
The Pattern of Animal Communities
Author | : Charles Sutherland Elton,D. A. Kempson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:250365545 |
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The Pattern of Animal Communities
Author | : Charles Sutherland Elton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
ISBN | : OCLC:224831656 |
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The pattern of animal communities
Author | : Charles S. Elton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:473774374 |
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Pattern of Animal Commonities
Author | : Elton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0470238682 |
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Animal Body Size
Author | : Felisa A. Smith,S. Kathleen Lyons |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-08-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226012285 |
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Galileo wrote that “nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones”—a statement that wonderfully captures a long-standing scientific fascination with body size. Why are organisms the size that they are? And what determines their optimum size? This volume explores animal body size from a macroecological perspective, examining species, populations, and other large groups of animals in order to uncover the patterns and causal mechanisms of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent diverse scientific perspectives and are divided into two sections. The first includes chapters on insects, snails, birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals and discusses the body size patterns of these various organisms. The second examines some of the factors behind, and consequences of, body size patterns and includes chapters on community assembly, body mass distribution, life history, and the influence of flight on body size.
Animal Communities
Author | : Michael Chinery |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Animal societies |
ISBN | : LCCN:74185604 |
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Organisation in Animal Communities Experimental and Naturalistic Studies of the Social Behaviour of Animals
Author | : Hilary Oldfield Box |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCAL:B5036234 |
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