Mutualistic Networks (eBook)

Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano (Autoren)

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2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400848720 (ISBN)

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Jordi Bascompte is professor of ecology at the University of Zurich. He is the coauthor of Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems (Princeton). Pedro Jordano is a professor at the Spanish Research Council and honorary professor at the University of Sevilla.

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Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a few species, as opposed to broader mutual connections between communities of organisms. Mutualistic Networks is the first book to comprehensively explore this burgeoning field. Integrating different approaches, from the statistical description of network structures to the development of new analytical frameworks, Jordi Bascompte and Pedro Jordano describe the architecture of these mutualistic networks and show their importance for the robustness of biodiversity and the coevolutionary process. Making a case for why we should care about mutualisms and their complex networks, this book offers a new perspective on the study and synthesis of this growing area for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. It will serve as the standard reference for all future work on mutualistic interactions in biological communities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2013
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• Zusatzinfo: 2 halftones. 88 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Addition • algorithm • Arthropod • asymmetry • Bias of an estimator • biodiversity • Biological constraints • Biological interaction • bipartite graph • Brownian motion • Centrality • Charles Darwin • coevolutioin • Coevolution • coevolutionary units • coextinction • community dynamics • complex network • computer simulation • Conceptual Framework • Contingency table • Correlation and dependence • Covariance matrix • curve fitting • data set • Defaunation • Degree distribution • disruptive selection • Ecological Interactions • ecological network • ecological networks • Ecology • Ecomorphology • ecosystem • Emergence • estimation • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Flora • Food Chain • food web • foraging • Frequency distribution • Frugivore • Gene Flow • Generalist and specialist species • Gephi • habitat destruction • Herbivore • horizontal gene transfer • Hybrid (biology) • insect • interdependence • interspecific competition • Invasive species • Isocline • Likelihood Function • Local extinction • matrix representation • metacommunity • metapopulation • Modularity (networks) • modular programming • multispecific mutualisms • mutualism • Mutualism (biology) • mutualisms • mutualistic interaction • mutualistic interactions • mutualistic networks • Nestedness • network architecture • Network motif • network robustness • Network Structure • Network structures • Network Theory • null hypothesis • null model • Package manager • Parameter • parasitism • Parasitoid • pathogen • phenology • Phenotype • Phenotypic trait • phylogenetic effects • Phylogenetics • phylogenetic tree • plant community • plant ecology • plantСnimal interactions • plantСnimal mutualisms • Pollination • pollinator • population dynamics • power law • predation • preferential attachment • Probability • Randomization • Scale-free network • seed dispersal • Skewness • space • spatial ecology • spatial heterogeneity • Spatial network • Statistic • Stephen P. Hubbell • structural pattern • Subset • symbiosis • Time • trophic cascade • Trophic level • Type I and type II errors • Variance • Weighted network
• ISBN-13: 9781400848720 / 9781400848720