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Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function, Vol 52. Advances in Ecological Research

  • Book

  • 400 Pages
  • May 2015
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 3084358

The theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function.



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Table of Contents

- Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems

Jean P. Gibert, Anthony I. Dell, John P. DeLong and Samraat Pawar

- Individual Variability: The Missing Component to our Understanding of Predator-Prey Interactions

Nathalie Pettorelli, Anne Hilborn , Clare Duncan and Sarah M. Durant

- Individual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species Persistence

Jean P. Gibert and John P. DeLong

- Predictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Kate L. Laskowski, Simon Pearish, Miles Bensky and Alison M. Bell

- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant-Insect Communities Facing Disturbances: Implications for Community Maintenance and Agricultural Management

Ewen Georgelin, Grigoris Kylafis and Nicolas Loeuille

- Population and Community Body Size Structure Across a Complex Environmental Gradient

Anthony I. Dell, Lei Zhao, Ulrich Brose, Richard G. Pearson and Ross A. Alford

- Shifts in the Diversity and Composition of Consumer Traits Constrain the Effects of Land Use on Stream Ecosystem Functioning André Frainer and Brendan G. McKie

- The Role of Body Size Variation in Community Assembly

Samraat Pawar

- Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories

Brian J. Enquist, Jon Norberg, Stephen P. Bonser, Cyrille Violle, Colleen T. Webb, Amanda Henderson, Lindsey L. Sloat and Van M. Savage

- Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning Oswald J. Schmitz, Robert W. Buchkowski, Karin T. Burghardt, and Colin M. Donihue