Ecological niches [electronic resource] : linking classical and contemporary approaches / Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold.
Series: Interspecific interactionsPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.Description: ix, 212 p. : illISBN:- 0226101797 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226101800 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226101798
- 9780226101811 (e-book)
- 577.8/2 21
- QH546.3 .C53 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-205).
1. Introduction : history, context, and purpose -- 2. Revising the niche concept : definitions and mechanistic models -- 3. Comparing classical and contemporary niche theory -- 4. Designs and limitations of empirical approaches to the niche -- 5. Incorporating biological complexities -- 6. Environmental variability in time and space -- 7. Species sorting in communities -- 8. Community succession, assembly, and biodiversity -- 9. Niche relations within ecosystems -- 10. The evolutionary niche -- 11. Conclusions.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.