Predation in Vertebrate Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predation in Vertebrate Communities write by Bogumila Jedrzejewska. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Predation in Vertebrate Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated ecologists. This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of interrelationships, and shows them against the background of their biotic and abiotic settings. It is based on long-term research conducted in the best preserved woodland of Europe's temperate zone. The role of predation, whether limiting or regulating prey (ungulate, rodent, shrew, bird, and amphibian) populations, is quantified and compared to parts played by other factors: climate, food resources for prey, and availability of other potential resources for predators.
Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community
Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community write by Vadim Sidorovich. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph is about predation in vertebrate animal community. The studies were done in the seminatural terrains with transitional mixed forest within the European forest zone in Belarus. The result part was organised as a top-down flow: First, the community characteristics related to predators were estimated. I presented data on predator species richness, population density and biomass with special attention paid to the changes in predator species diversity occurred during the last two centuries and particularly in connection with the American mink and raccoon dog naturalization. Then, the main features of predator food niches were given, and the structure of various predator guilds and size structure in predators were analysed. The next part of the monograph was devoted to examining of community-important factors acting in semi-natural terrains. Such factors affected either the whole community or its marked fragment. The last quite a large part of the monograph consisted of many chapters which present more or less essential results on different predator species, and stresses hot questions of their population ecology.
Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions write by Pedro Barbosa. This book was released on 2005-08-11. Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.
Size-Structured Populations
Size-Structured Populations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Size-Structured Populations write by Bo Ebenman. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Size-Structured Populations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At last both ecology and evolution are covered in this study on the dynamics of size-structured populations. How does natural selection shape growth patterns and life cycles of individuals, and hence the size-structure of populations? This book will stimulate biologists to look into some important and interesting biological problems from a new angle of approach, concerning: - life history evolution, - intraspecific competition and niche theory, - structure and dynamics of ecological communities.
The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest
The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest write by Christophe Boesch. This book was released on 2000. The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chimpanzees are the closest living evolutionary relatives to our own species, Homo sapiens. As such, they have long exerted a fascination over those with an interest in human evolution, and what makes humans unique. Chrisophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Acherman undertook an incredible observational study of a group of wild chimpanzees of the Tai forest in Cote D'Ivoire, spending some fifteen years in the West African jungle with them. This fascinating book is the result of these years of painstaking research among the chimps. Chimpanzee behavior is documented here in all its impressive diversity and variety. Aggression, territoriality, social structure and relationships, reproductive strategies, hunting, tool use - each of these is given its own chapter, along with topics such as chimp intelligence, life histories, and demography. The authors take care to place their observations within the broader context of research in behavioral ecology, and to compare and contrast their findings with other important work on chimpanzee groups, such as that by Jane Goodall. The book concludes with a summary chapter relating the chimpanzee findings to our understanding of human evolution. Combining careful scientific observation with a store of entertaining anecdotes, this is a lively and readable book. It also succeeds in shedding light on some of the central questions around the evolutionary relationships between the primates, and in particular the affinity between chimpanzees and humans. 'This is a major contribution to the study of the great apes, and a significant addition to debates about human/ape evolution. It has all the makings of a classic monograph.
