N.Zaccarelli, ...G.Zurlini, inEncyclopedia of Ecology, 2008 A Retrospective Approach to Complex Systems Analysis Complex systems theory evolved within the framework of general systems theory, mathematics, and philosophy in the 1960s and 1970s by integrating concepts from catastrophe theory, chaos ...
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Parallel evolution across replicate populations has provided evolutionary biologists with iconic examples of adaptation. When multiple populations colonize seemingly similar habitats, they may evolve similar genes, traits, or functions. Yet, replicated evolution in nature or in the laboratory often yields ...
Impact factors were collected and preprocessed from five aspects (topography and geomorphology, geological structure, hydrology and ecology, human activities, and earthquake conditions). Second, landslide samples are selected in the landslide area, and non-landslide samples are selected in the remaining ...
Theory suggests that speciation is possible without physical isolation of populations (hereafter, nonallopatric speciation), but recent nonallopatric models need the support of irrefutable empirical examples. We collected snails ( Littorina saxatilis ) from three areas on the NW coast of Spain to invest...
Monbiot has clearly been deeply immersed in his research on soil ecology, but also addresses social issues around food bank use, and he puts forward a persuasive case for reducing farming of animals for food. Continue reading → 5 Comments Filed under Books Tagged as Book, Book Review, Book ...
The narrowest host ranges, those in which a single microbial species affects only a single host species, appear to be derived from coevolutionary accommodations between microbe and host. Some of the fungal examples of such narrow host ranges include the species ofMassospora, a zygomycete genus ...
1 There is evidence that plants in natural communities form transitive competitive hierarchies, but the pervasiveness and malleability of hierarchies remai... PA Keddy,L Twolan-Strutt,IC Wisheu - 《Journal of Ecology》 被引量: 621发表: 1994年 How Theory and Research Inform Citizen Participation ...
Finally, the vast majority of the publications regarded terrestrial mammals, which is unsurprising, considering that such taxonomic bias is well-recognised and common to several fields of wildlife biology [24,25,26,27], disease ecology included [28,29]. Below, we will present an overview of ...
Schowalter, in Insect Ecology (Second Edition), 2006 2 Nitrogenous defenses Nitrogenous defenses include nonprotein amino acids, cyanogenic glucosides, glucosinolates, and alkaloids (Fig. 3.6). These compounds are highly toxic as a result of their interference with protein function or physiological ...