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Quaternary Ecology - A paleoecological perspective (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
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Quaternary Ecology - A paleoecological perspective (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
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The increasing interest during recent years in vegetation history,
long-term climatic changes and the development of biotic
communities has resulted in a growth of the literature in this
field and has provided an incentive for scientists to use
palaeo-ecology concepts to clarify contemporary ecological issues.
Quaternary ecology offers the perspective of time, in using
"natural experiments of the past" to evaluate the responses of
population, communities and ecosystems to climatic and
environmental changes on a time scale extending back over the past
two million years of the quaternary period. Examples from the
palaeo-ecological literature demonstrate how quaternary ecology
interfaces with other branches of ecology, including plant
demography, ecological genetics, limnology and landscape ecology.
The book provides an integrated overview of this interdisciplinary
area. The authors examine the validity of space for time
substitution in studies of plant succession, the individualistic
nature of species migrations and invasions of pre-existing
communities, the disassembly and reassembly of communities
following major environmental change and the applications of
quaternary ecology to predicting biotic responses to future global
climatic change. By examining key ecological issues and
controversies that can be approached fruitfully using
palaeo-ecological methods, this book is intended to complement
rather than replace traditional textbooks in ecology and
palaeo-ecology.
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