Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics: 1995 (Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824314263 ISBN 13: 9780824314262

Publisher: Annual Reviews, 1995

Synopsis

Contents: Sustainability-More Than a Buzz-Word?; The Concept of Environmental Sustainability; Sustainability of Soil Use; Sustainable Exploitation of Renewable Resources; Can We Sustain the Biological Basis of Agriculture?; Measuring Biodiversity Value for Conservation; Human Ecology and Resource Sustainability: The Importance of Institutional Diversity; Sustainability, Efficiency, and God: Economic Values and the Sustainability Debate; Ecological Basis for Sustainable Development in Tropical Forests; Managing North American Waterfowl in the Face of Uncertainty; The Ecological Basis of Alternative Agriculture; Economic Development vs. Sustainable Societies: Reflections on the Players in a Crucial Contest; Vestigialization and Loss of Nonfunctional Characters; The Quality of the Fossil Record: Populations, Species, and Communities; Hierarchical Approaches to Macroevolution: Recent Work on Species Selection and the "Effect Hypothesis"; Women in Systematics; A Genetic Perspective on the Origin and History of Humans; Historical Biogeography: Introduction to Methods; Molecular Evidence for Natural Selection; Genetic Mosaicism in Plants and Clonal Animals; Dinosaur Biology; The Role of Nitrogen in the Response of Forest Net Primary Production to Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide; Food Web Architecture and Population Dynamics: Theory and Empirical Evidence; Architectural Effects and the Interpretation of Patterns of Fruit and Seed Development; Mutation and Adaptation: The Directed Mutation Controversy in Evolutionary Perspective; Speciation in Eastern North American Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon; Multiple Fitness Peaks and Epistasis; Ecology and Evolution of Social Organization: Insights from Fire Ants and Other Highly Eusocial Insects; Separate Versus Combined Analysis of Phylogenetic Evidence; Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Global Environmental Change; Dispersal systems in the Mediterranean: Ecological, Evolutionary, and Historical Determinants

About this edition

• Publisher: Annual Reviews
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0824314263
• ISBN 13: 9780824314262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 745
• Editor: Fautin Daphne Gail, Futuyma Douglas J., James Frances C.