Dynamics of Coral Communities (Population and Community Biology Series, 23) - Taschenbuch

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781402010460
ISBN (ISBN-10): 140201046X
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Herausgeber: Springer
260 Seiten
Gewicht: 0,413 kg
Sprache: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 140201046X

ISBN - alternative Schreibweisen:
1-4020-1046-X, 978-1-4020-1046-0
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Autor des Buches: karlson
Titel des Buches: dynamics coral communities

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Daten vom Verlag:

Autor/in: R.H. Karlson
Titel: Population and Community Biology Series; Dynamics of Coral Communities
Verlag: Springer; Springer Netherland
250 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002-10-31
Dordrecht; NL
Sprache: Englisch
106,99 € (DE)
109,99 € (AT)
118,00 CHF (CH)
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1 Introduction.- 1.1 Ecological communities, guilds, assemblages and webs.- 1.2 Taxonomic and trophic constraints.- 1.3 Scale-dependent dynamics.- 1.4 Marine epibenthic communities.- 1.5 Overview.- 2 Diversity.- 2.1 Origins of diversity.- 2.2 Patterns of coral diversity.- 2.3 Diversity of non-coral taxa.- 2.4 Overview.- 3 Stability.- 3.1 What is stability?.- 3.2 Are stability and diversity related?.- 3.3 Keystone species.- 3.4 Transient dynamics of nonequilibrial systems.- 3.5 Overview.- 4 Succession.- 4.1 Successional mechanisms on ecological time scales.- 4.2 Succession in coral communities.- 4.3 Overview.- 5 Interspecific competition.- 5.1 General considerations.- 5.2 Interspecific competition in coral communities.- 5.3 Overview.- 6 Consumer-resource interactions.- 6.1 Coupled populations, food webs, and interactive community processes.- 6.2 Food-web interactions of coral reef fishes: an example.- 6.3 Plant-herbivore interactions in coral communities.- 6.4 Predator-prey interactions in coral communities.- 6.5 Overview.- 7 Disturbance.- 7.1 Disturbance and species coexistence.- 7.2 Disturbances to coral communities: a potpourri.- 7.3 Do disturbances promote species coexistence?.- 7.4 Overview.- 8 Large-scale perspectives.- 8.1 General considerations.- 8.2 Evidence from coral communities.- 8.3 Middle ground.- 8.4 Overview.- 9 Integration across scales.- 9.1 The local environment.- 9.2 The regional setting and cross-scale linkage.- 9.3 A biogeographic context for coral community ecology.- 9.4 Closing comments.- References.