Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function

The theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function. Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in this invaluable series include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. INDICE: 1. Overview: Scaling up individual trait variation to community dynamics 2. Individual variability: the missing component to our understanding of predator-prey interactions 3. Using Trait-Driver Theory to Predict Community and Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Gradients 4. Constraints of food web dynamics on individual foraging traits 5. Individual variation decreases interference competition but increases species persistence 6. Toward a Relational Functional Traits Approach for Connecting Community-level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning 7. Predictors of individual variation in movement in a natural population of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) 8. Eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-insect communities facing disturbances 9. Population size distributions across a complex environmental landscape 10. Shifts in the diversity and composition of consumer traits constrain the effects of land use on stream ecosystem functioning

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802445-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 318
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés