Author: Group for Aquatic Primary Productivity. International Workshop
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Category : Circadian rhythms
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: T. Berman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401128057
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Group for Aquatic Primary Productivity
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Languages : en
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Author: David Tilman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209650
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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One of the central questions of ecology is why there are so many different kinds of plants and animals. Here David Tilman presents a theory of how organisms compete for resources and the way their competition promotes diversity. Developing Hutchinson's suggestion that the main cause of diversity is the feeding relations of species, this book builds a mechanistic, resource-based explanation of the structure and functioning of ecological communities. In a detailed analysis of the Park Grass Experiments at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in England, the author demonstrates that the dramatic results of these 120 years of experimentation are consistent with his theory, as are observations in many other natural communities. The consumer-resource approach of this book is applicable to both animal and plant communities, but the majority of Professor Tilman's discussion concentrates on the structure of plant communities. All theoretical arguments are developed graphically, and formal mathematics is kept to a minimum. The final chapters of the book provide some testable speculations about resources and animal communities and explore such problems as the evolution of "super species," the differences between plant and animal community diversity patterns, and the cause of plant succession.

Author: Graham P. Harris
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400931654
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Alain Sournia
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Martin Heimann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642846084
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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This book is the outcome of a NAill Advanced Study Institute on the contemporary glo bal carbon cycle, held in n Ciocco, Italy, September 8-20, 1991. The motivation for this ASI originated from recent controversial findings regarding the relative roles of the ocean and the land biota in the current global balance of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Consequently, the pur pose of this institute was to review, among leading experts in the field, the multitude of known constraints on the present day global carbon cycle as identified by the fields of meteorology, physical and biological oceanography, geology and terrestrial biosphere sciences. At the same time the form of an Advanced Study Institute was chosen, thus providing the opportunity to convey the information in tutorial form across disciplines and to young researchers entering the field. The first three sections of this book contain the lectures held in II Ciocco. The first sec tion reviews the atmospheric, large-scale global constraints on the present day carbon cycle including the emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use and it provides a brief look into the past. The second section discusses the role of the terrestrial biosphere and the third the role of the ocean in the contemporary global carbon cycle.

Author: Jeng Chang
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Category : Phytoplankton
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Category : Plankton
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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