Bücher der Reihe Symposia of the British Ecological Society

Macroecology: Concepts and Consequences provides an overview of current thinking about the form and determinants of macroecological patterns. Sections present different viewpoints on answers to key questions in macroecology, such as why are most species rare, small-bodied, and restricted in their distribution?

The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don't are only just becoming clear. In this volume, international experts in the field of population biology aim to advance our understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes in a common frame of reference: space.

Ecology: Achievement and Challenge considers key aspects of ecology and its interfaces with related disciplines, such as genetics and economics. The international team of authors includes the most thoughtful ecologists of our time. This book will prove invaluable to both advanced students and researchers in ecology.

Tropical communities are recognised as among the most species-rich and dynamic in the world. Yet far from existing as dynamic equilibria, large unpredictable disruptive events are seen as dominating the dynamics. This 1998 volume challenges the dynamic equilibrium idea further, considering timescale, innovative handling of unpredictability and evaluating species diversity.

The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don't are only just becoming clear. In this volume, international experts in the field of population biology aim to advance our understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes in a common frame of reference: space.

Multitrophic interactions are now recognised as being of the utmost importance in understanding the complexity of the natural world. However, their complex nature had often been a barrier to their study as they require research teams composed of workers often with very disparate interests. This book therefore takes a multidisciplinary approach to complex interactions across many trophic levels.

In the light of the progress made in ecology and widening public recognition of the problems to be solved, the future looks very promising. This symposium volume is aimed at considering the most fruitful current approaches and technologies, determining the major obstacles and reviewing the most likely profitable lines of advance.

Once thought of as a pristine environment it is now all too apparent that the Arctic is a sink for pollutants transported northwards over long distances in the atmosphere and oceans and is also likely to be subject to major climate change as a result of global warming.

Dispersal has become central to many questions in theoretical and applied ecology in recent years. In this volume a team of leading ecologists aim to provide the advanced student and researcher with a comprehensive review of dispersal and its implications for modern ecology.

This integrative volume brings together geneticists and ecologists to confront the implications of the others' discipline for their own work. The book also includes protocols for relevant molecular and genetic techniques, including DNA purification, polymerase chain reaction, DNA fingerprinting, sequencing and restriction fragment length polymorphism investigation.

This excellent set of review chapters discusses the effects of environmental heterogeneity; the effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on individuals, populations, communities and biodiversity; and the management and conservation implications of environment heterogeneity. The book is an invaluable reference work for graduate students and researchers.

Tropical communities are recognised as among the most species-rich and dynamic in the world. Yet far from existing as dynamic equilibria, large unpredictable disruptive events are seen as dominating the dynamics. This 1998 volume challenges the dynamic equilibrium idea further, considering timescale, innovative handling of unpredictability and evaluating species diversity.

Once thought of as a pristine environment it is now all too apparent that the Arctic is a sink for pollutants transported northwards over long distances in the atmosphere and oceans and is also likely to be subject to major climate change as a result of global warming.