Author: Victor Ernest Shelford
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Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Animal Communities in Temperate America
Author: Victor Ernest Shelford
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Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher:
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Category : Animal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Pattern of Animal Communities
Author: C. S. Elton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400958722
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400958722
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
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.
Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History
Author: Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Bird Lore
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Range and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
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Category : Forage plants
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Forage plants
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society
Author: Wisconsin Natural History Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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List of members in v. 2-9, 11, 13.
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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List of members in v. 2-9, 11, 13.
Landscapes and Labscapes
Author: Robert E. Kohler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226450112
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls? In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226450112
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls? In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Ecological Networks in the Tropics
Author: Wesley Dáttilo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319682288
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Based on graph theory studies this book seeks to understand how tropical species interact with each other and how these interactions are affected by perturbations in some of the most species-rich habitats on earth. Due to the great diversity of species and interactions in the tropics, this book addresses a wide range of current and future issues with empirical examples and complete revisions on different types of ecological networks: from mutualisms to antagonisms. The goal of this publication is not to be only for researchers but also for undergraduates in different areas of knowledge, and also to serve as a reference text for graduate-level courses mainly in the life sciences.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319682288
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Based on graph theory studies this book seeks to understand how tropical species interact with each other and how these interactions are affected by perturbations in some of the most species-rich habitats on earth. Due to the great diversity of species and interactions in the tropics, this book addresses a wide range of current and future issues with empirical examples and complete revisions on different types of ecological networks: from mutualisms to antagonisms. The goal of this publication is not to be only for researchers but also for undergraduates in different areas of knowledge, and also to serve as a reference text for graduate-level courses mainly in the life sciences.
Scottish Geographical Magazine
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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