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A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory
and practice Scale is one of the most important concepts in
ecology, yet researchers often find it difficult to find ecological
systems that lend themselves to its study. Scaling in Ecology with
a Model System synthesizes nearly three decades of research on the
ecology of Sarracenia purpurea-the northern pitcher plant-showing
how this carnivorous plant and its associated food web of microbes
and macrobes can inform the challenging question of scaling in
ecology. Drawing on a wealth of findings from their pioneering lab
and field experiments, Aaron Ellison and Nicholas Gotelli reveal
how the Sarracenia microecosystem has emerged as a model system for
experimental ecology. Ellison and Gotelli examine Sarracenia at a
hierarchy of spatial scales-individual pitchers within plants,
plants within bogs, and bogs within landscapes-and demonstrate how
pitcher plants can serve as replicate miniature ecosystems that can
be studied in wetlands throughout the United States and Canada.
They show how research on the Sarracenia microecosystem proceeds
much more rapidly than studies of larger, more slowly changing
ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, lakes, or streams, which
are more difficult to replicate and experimentally manipulate.
Scaling in Ecology with a Model System offers new insights into
ecophysiology and stoichiometry, demography, extinction risk and
species distribution models, food webs and trophic dynamics, and
tipping points and regime shifts.
A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory
and practice Scale is one of the most important concepts in
ecology, yet researchers often find it difficult to find ecological
systems that lend themselves to its study. Scaling in Ecology with
a Model System synthesizes nearly three decades of research on the
ecology of Sarracenia purpurea-the northern pitcher plant-showing
how this carnivorous plant and its associated food web of microbes
and macrobes can inform the challenging question of scaling in
ecology. Drawing on a wealth of findings from their pioneering lab
and field experiments, Aaron Ellison and Nicholas Gotelli reveal
how the Sarracenia microecosystem has emerged as a model system for
experimental ecology. Ellison and Gotelli examine Sarracenia at a
hierarchy of spatial scales-individual pitchers within plants,
plants within bogs, and bogs within landscapes-and demonstrate how
pitcher plants can serve as replicate miniature ecosystems that can
be studied in wetlands throughout the United States and Canada.
They show how research on the Sarracenia microecosystem proceeds
much more rapidly than studies of larger, more slowly changing
ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, lakes, or streams, which
are more difficult to replicate and experimentally manipulate.
Scaling in Ecology with a Model System offers new insights into
ecophysiology and stoichiometry, demography, extinction risk and
species distribution models, food webs and trophic dynamics, and
tipping points and regime shifts.
This book presents a concise but detailed exposition of the most
common mathematical models in population and community ecology. It
is intended to demystify ecological models and the mathematics
behind them by deriving the models from first principles.
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