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Nonequilibrium Ecology

Nonequilibrium Ecology

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Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 0521674557
ISBN13: 9780521674553
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 19 2006
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Ecology has long been shaped by ideas that stress the sharing of resources and the competition for those resources, and by the assumption that populations and communities typically exist under equilibrium conditions in habitats saturated with both individuals and species. However, much evidence contradicts these assumptions and it is likely that nonequilibrium is much more widespread than might be expected. This book is unique in focusing on nonequilibrium aspects of ecology, providing evidence for nonequilibrium and equilibrium in populations (and metapopulations), in extant communities and in ecological systems over evolutionary time.

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