Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Plant Interactions: An Empirical Modelling Approach

✍ Scribed by Christian Damgaard

• Publisher: Aarhus Univ Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Concepts and simple empirical models that are useful in the study of the quantitative aspects of evolutionary ecology of plant - plant interactions is discussed and developed, and the use of simple empirical models in the statistical analysis of plant ecological data is exemplified. Special attention is paid to the consequences of the sedentary life form of adult plants and the subsequent strong interactions between neighbouring plants. The monograph provides an overview of different evolutionary and ecological empirical plant population models and conceptual links between different modelling approaches, e.g., spatial individual-based or plant size explicit modelling and the equilibrium conditions of mean-field models. The biological information underlying the discussed models is only briefly discussed.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Dedication Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Integrating ecological data and mathematical modelling......Page 6
Outline of monograph......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Content......Page 9
Ecological and evolutionary success......Page 11
The consequences of being sedentary......Page 12
Modelling plant-plant interactions......Page 14
Competitive growth......Page 17
Describing variation in plant size......Page 19
Modelling plant growth......Page 22
Size-asymmetric growth......Page 23
Effect of plant density......Page 27
Modelling spatial effects......Page 29
Mortality......Page 33
Reproduction......Page 34
Population growth......Page 36
At equilibrium......Page 37
Seed dispersal......Page 41
Modelling spatial effects......Page 42
Seed dormancy......Page 45
Demographic models of structured populations......Page 46
Long-term demographic data......Page 48
Interactions between species......Page 51
Modelling interspeci.c competition......Page 53
Modelling spatial effects......Page 62
Environmental gradients......Page 66
Plant – herbivore and plant – pathogen interactions......Page 68
Plant strategies and plant community structure......Page 69
Genetic variation......Page 75
Inbreeding......Page 79
Population structure......Page 81
Mode of selection......Page 85
Natural selection on a single locus......Page 87
Finite populations......Page 93
Density dependent selection......Page 94
Measuring natural selection in natural populations......Page 97
Trade-offs and evolutionary stable strategies......Page 103
Evolution of sex......Page 107
Evolution of the sel.ng rate......Page 111
Speciation......Page 113
Appendix A. Parameters and variables......Page 115
Appendix B. Nonlinear regression......Page 117
Appendix C. Bayesian inference......Page 121
Appendix D. Stability of discrete dynamic systems......Page 125
References......Page 127
Index......Page 147