Evolution in Changing Environments Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB 2)

Richard Levins

ISBN 10: 0691080623 / ISBN 13: 9780691080628

Published by Princeton Univ Pr, 1968

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132 pages. 8.48x6.14x0.36 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolution in Changing Environments Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB 2)
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691080623
• ISBN 13: 9780691080628
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.19 kilograms

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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.