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Evolution in Changing Environments: Some Theoretical Explorations (Monographs in Population Biology, 2) - Softcover

Book 54 of 64: Monographs in Population Biology

Levins, Richard

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9780691080628: Evolution in Changing Environments: Some Theoretical Explorations (Monographs in Population Biology, 2)
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ISBN 10: 0691080623 ISBN 13: 9780691080628
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1968

Synopsis

Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
1968
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691080623
ISBN 13 
9780691080628
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
132
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