Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function

One of the most successful series in the field of ecology, publishes topical and important reviews that include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology

Samraat Pawar (Volume editor), Guy Woodward (Volume editor), Anthony I. Dell (Volume editor)

9780128024454

Hardback, published 11 May 2015

400 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.69 kg

"Important and innovative contributions to the subject and together have a breadth of approach that means that what they choose to put before their readers is likely to be of unusual interest or significance." --Plant Pathology

The theme of this volume is Trait-Based Ecology - From Structure to Function.

1. Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems

Jean P. Gibert, Anthony I. Dell, John P. DeLong and Samraat Pawar

2. Individual Variability: The Missing Component to our Understanding of Predator–Prey Interactions

Nathalie Pettorelli, Anne Hilborn , Clare Duncan and Sarah M. Durant

3. Individual Variation Decreases Interference Competition but Increases Species Persistence

Jean P. Gibert and John P. DeLong

4. Predictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Kate L. Laskowski, Simon Pearish, Miles Bensky and Alison M. Bell

5. Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant–Insect Communities Facing Disturbances: Implications for Community Maintenance and Agricultural Management

Ewen Georgelin, Grigoris Kylafis and Nicolas Loeuille

6. Population and Community Body Size Structure Across a Complex Environmental Gradient

Anthony I. Dell, Lei Zhao, Ulrich Brose, Richard G. Pearson and Ross A. Alford

7. Shifts in the Diversity and Composition of Consumer Traits Constrain the Effects of Land Use on Stream Ecosystem Functioning André Frainer and Brendan G. McKie
8. The Role of Body Size Variation in Community Assembly

Samraat Pawar

9. Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories

Brian J. Enquist, Jon Norberg, Stephen P. Bonser, Cyrille Violle, Colleen T. Webb, Amanda Henderson, Lindsey L. Sloat and Van M. Savage

10. Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning Oswald J. Schmitz, Robert W. Buchkowski, Karin T. Burghardt, and Colin M. Donihue

Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], The environment [RN]