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Evolutionary Community Ecology, Volume 58 (Hardcover): Mark A. McPeek

Evolutionary Community Ecology, Volume 58 (Hardcover)

Mark A. McPeek

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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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Monographs in Population Biology
Release date: August 2017
Authors: Mark A. McPeek
Dimensions: 235 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-08877-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
LSN: 0-691-08877-2
Barcode: 9780691088778

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