Evolutionary Conservation Biology - Couverture souple

Ferrière, Régis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521116082 ISBN 13 : 9780521116084

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

As anthropogenic environmental changes spread and intensify across the planet, conservation biologists have to analyze dynamics at large spatial and temporal scales. Ecological and evolutionary processes are then closely intertwined. In particular, evolutionary responses to anthropogenic environmental change can be so fast and pronounced that conservation biology can no longer afford to ignore them. To tackle this challenge, areas of conservation biology that are disparate ought to be integrated into a unified framework. Bringing together conservation genetics, demography, and ecology, this book introduces evolutionary conservation biology as an integrative approach to managing species in conjunction with ecological interactions and evolutionary processes. Which characteristics of species and which features of environmental change foster or hinder evolutionary responses in ecological systems? How do such responses affect population viability, community dynamics, and ecosystem functioning? Under which conditions will evolutionary responses ameliorate, rather than worsen, the impact of environmental change?

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr. Régis Ferrière is Professor of Mathematical Ecology in the Department of Ecology at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France and Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Dr. Ulf Dieckman is Project Leader, Adaptive Dynamics Network at the IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

Dr. Denis Couvet is Professor at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521116082
• ISBN 13: 9780521116084
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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