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Main Title Niche : theory and application /
Author Whittaker, Robert Harding ; Levin, Simon A.
Publisher Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; Distributed by Halsted Press,
Year Published 1975
OCLC Number 01093587
ISBN 0470941170; 9780470941171
Subjects Ecology ; Species ; Biotic communities ; Ecosystem ; Species Specificity ; 4290 ecology: general--(NL-LeOCL)077603583 ; èOkologische Nische
Additional Subjects Ecology--Addresses, essays, lectures ; Species--Addresses, essays, lectures ; Biotic communities--Addresses, essays, lectures
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Collation xv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Notes Part I: Origin of the niche concept -- The niche-relationships of the California thrasher / Grinnell, J. -- The origin and distribution of the chestnut-backed chickadee / Grinnell, J. -- Animal ecology / Elton, C. -- The struggle for existence / Gause, G.F. -- Part II: The competitive exclusion principle -- The competitive exclusion principle / Hardin, G. -- Variations and fluctuations of the number of individuals in animal species living together / Volterra, V. -- The struggle for existence / Gause, G.F. -- Community equilibria and stability, and an extension of the competitive exclusion principle / Levin, S.A. -- Part III: Niche axes -- On bird species diversity: II. Prediction of bird census from habitat measurements / MacArthur, R.H., J.W. MacArthur, and J. Preer -- The niche exploitation pattern of the blue-gray gnatcatcher / Root, R.B. -- Distributional ecology of New Guinea birds / Diamond, J.M. -- Food web complexity and species diversity / Paine, R.T. -- Experimental populations of hydrida / Slobodkin, L.B. -- Interspecific competition between two species of bean weevil / Utida, S. -- Communities and ecosystems / Whittaker, R.H. -- Population regulation and genetic feedback / Pimentel, D. -- Genotype, environment, and population numbers / Ayala, F.J. -- The paradox of the plankton / Hutchinson, G.E. -- Part IV: Niche and habitat dimensions -- A treatise on limnology: Vol. II. Introduction to lake biology and the limnoplankton / Hutchinson, G.E. -- Comparative ecology of the interstitial fauna of fresh-water and marine beaches / Pennak, R.W. -- Gradient analysis of vegetation / Whittaker, R.H. -- A study of plankton copepod communities in the Columbia Basin, Southeastern Washington / Whittaker, R.H. and C.W. Fairbanks -- Constellation of frequent herbage plants, based on their correlation in occurrence / de Vries, D.M., J.P. Baretta, and G. Hamming -- Distribution on environmental gradients: Theory and a preliminary interpretation of distributional patterns in the avifauna of the cordillera vilcabamba, Peru / Terborgh, J. -- Ordinations of habitat relationships among breeding birds / James, F.C. -- Niche overlap as a function of environmental variability / May, R.M. and R.H. MacArthur -- Niche overlap and diffuse competition / Pianka, E.R. -- Evolution in changing environments: Some theoretical explorations / Levins, R. -- On the measurement of niche breadth and overlap / Colwell, R.K. and D.J. Futuyma -- Niche breadth and dominance of parasitic insects sharing the same host species / Price, P.W. -- Part V: Variation in space and time -- Character displacement / Brown, W.L., Jr., and E.O. Wilson -- The evolution of bill size differences among sympatric congeneric species of birds / Schoener, T.W. -- Morphological variation and width of ecological niche / Van Valen, L. -- The theory of island biogeography / MacArthur, R.H., and E.O. Wilson -- Part VI: Case histories -- The competitive structure of communities: An experimental approach with protozoa / Vandermeer, J.H. -- Population ecology of some warblers of northeastern coniferous forests / MacArthur, R.H. -- Mesopsocus populations on larch in England -- The distribution and dynamics of two closely-related coexisting species of psocoptera sharing the same food resource / Broadhead, E., and A.J. Wapshere -- Some aspects of the ecology of migrant shorebirds / Recher, H.F. -- Part VII: Conclusion -- Concluding remarks / Hutchinson, G.E. -- The theory of the niche / MacArthur, R.H. -- Niche, habitat, and ecotope / Whittaker, R.H., S.A. Levin, and R.B. Root.
Place Published Stroudsburg, Pa. :
PUB Date Free Form {1975}
Series Title Untraced Benchmark papers in ecology ; 3
Document Type BC
Cataloging Source OCLC/U
LCCN 74023328
Merged OCLC records 1061634234; 1170497963; 1171302623
Origin OCLC
Type CAT