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Evolutionary Community Ecology, Volume 58 (Hardcover)
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Evolutionary Community Ecology, Volume 58 (Hardcover)
Series: Monographs in Population Biology
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Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for
understanding the structure of ecological communities and the
dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the
species inhabiting them. All species engage in interactions with
many other species, and these interactions regulate their
abundance, define their trajectories of natural selection, and
shape their movement decisions. Mark McPeek synthesizes the
ecological and evolutionary dynamics generated by species
interactions that structure local biological communities and
regional metacommunities. McPeek explores the ecological
performance characteristics needed for invasibility and coexistence
of species in complex networks of species interactions. This
species interaction framework is then extended to examine the
ecological dynamics of natural selection that drive coevolution of
interacting species in these complex interaction networks. The
models of natural selection resulting from species interactions are
used to evaluate the ecological conditions that foster
diversification at multiple trophic levels. Analyses show that
diversification depends on the ecological context in which species
interactions occur and the types of traits that define the
mechanisms of those species interactions. Lastly, looking at the
mechanisms of speciation that affect species richness and diversity
at various spatial scales and the consequences of past climate
change over the Quaternary period, McPeek considers how
metacommunity structure is shaped at regional and biogeographic
scales. Integrating evolutionary theory into the study of community
ecology, Evolutionary Community Ecology provides a new framework
for predicting how communities are organized and how they may
change over time.
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