Ecological Versatility and Community Ecology

Small quarto in yellow and black jacket; xvii, 435 pages: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 376-422) and index. M C Escher jacket illusration. "This book is about specialization and generalization in the use of resources and habitats. The author uses a broad ecological perspective to address three main questions. How do ecologists study variation in resource and habitat use, and what do we know from these studies? How well does existing theory account for observations, and what are the common threads between disciplines? Finally, what is the relationship between resource and habitat use? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of ecological versatility."--Jacket. / Contents: Preface -- An introduction to ecological versatility -- Defining and measuring versatility -- Studies of versatility in natural populations -- The influence of interspecific interactions on versatility -- The influence of population structure on versatility -- Ecological versatility and population dynamics -- Versatility and interspecific competition -- Ubiquity or habitat diversity -- Recapitulation and commentary -- Glossary of terms -- Appendices -- References. / Series: Cambridge Studies in Ecology.M. Jacket gently sunned. Fine in a near fine jacket. in near fine dust-jacket.…