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adaptations
Author_Jonathan M. Chase
Author_Mathew A. Leibold
biodiversity
biological
biology
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communities
competition
consumer-resource
context
cooperation
development
diversity
ecological
ecology
ecosystems
environment
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evolution
evolutionary
history
integrative
life processes
natural science
purpose
relationships
scientists
sorting
species
variability
Product details
- ISBN 9780226101804
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2003
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why do species live where they live? What determines the abundance and diversity of species in a given area? What role do species play in the functioning of entire ecosystems? All of these questions share a single core concept - the ecological niche. Although the niche concept has fallen into disfavour among ecologists in recent years, Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold argue that the niche is an ideal tool with which to unify disparate research and theoretical approaches in contemporary ecology. Chase and Leibold define the niche as including both what an organism needs from its environment and how that organism's activities shape its environment. Drawing on the theory of consumer-resource interactions, as well as its graphical analysis, they develop a framework for understanding niches that is flexible enough to include a variety of small- and large-scale processes, from resource competition, predation and stress to community structure, biodiversity and ecosystem function. Chase and Leibold's synthetic approach should interest ecologists from a wide range of subdisciplines.
