Evolutionary ecology: concepts and case studies

✍ Scribed by Charles W. Fox, Daphne J. Fairbairn

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 437
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Evolutionary Ecology simultaneously unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary ecology and provides a volume that can be used as either a primary textbook or a supplemental reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. The focus of the book is on current concepts in evolutionary ecology, and the empirical study of these concepts. The editors have assembled a group of prominent biologists who have made significant contributions to this field. They both synthesize the current state of knowledge and identity areas for future investigation. Evolutionary Ecology will be of general interest to researchers and students in both ecology and evolutionary biology. Researchers in evolutionary ecology that want an overview of the current state of the field, and graduate students that want an introduction the field, will find this book very valuable. This volume can also be used as a primary textbook or supplemental reading in both upper division and graduate courses/seminars in Evolutionary Ecology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright
......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Part II. Life Histories......Page 10
Part V. Adaptation to Anthropogenic Change......Page 11
Contributors......Page 12
Part I. Recurring Themes......Page 14
1. Nature and Causes of Variation 3......Page 16
2. Evolutionary Significance of Variation 16......Page 29
3. Natural Selection 29......Page 42
4. Adaptation 44......Page 57
5. Phenotypic Plasticity 58......Page 71
6. Population Structure 70......Page 83
7. Inbreeding and Outbreeding 84......Page 97
Part II. Life Histories......Page 110
8. Age and Size at Maturity 99......Page 112
9. Offspring Size and Number 113......Page 126
10. Senescence 128......Page 141
11. Life Cycles 142......Page 155
12. Sex and Gender 154......Page 167
13. Sex Ratios and Sex Allocation 165......Page 178
14. Ecological Specialization and Generalization 177......Page 190
Part III. Behavior......Page 204
15. Mating Systems 193......Page 206
16. Sexual Selection 207......Page 220
17. Cooperation and Altruism 222......Page 235
18. Foraging Behavior 232......Page 245
19. The Evolutionary Ecology of Movement 247......Page 260
Part IV. Interspecific Interactions......Page 276
20. Ecological Character Displacement 265......Page 278
21. Predator-Prey Interactions 277......Page 290
Parasite-Host Interactions 290......Page 303
23. Plant-Herbivore Interactions 303......Page 316
24. Mutualisms 315......Page 328
The Geographic Dynamics of Coevolution 331......Page 344
Part V. Adaptation to Anthropogenic Change......Page 358
26. Pesticide Resistance 347......Page 360
27.
Predicting the Outcome of Biological Control 361......Page 374
28. Evolutionary Conservation Biology 371......Page 384
References 385......Page 398
Index......Page 428