Ecological Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity : The 40th Symposium of the British Ecological Society, Held at the University of Sussex, 23-25 March 1999

by British Ecological Society Symposium 1999 University of Sussex); Hutchings, M. J.

• ISBN13: 9780632057146
• ISBN10: 0632057149
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
History of the British Ecological Society	xi
Preface	xiii
The world is heterogeneous: ecological consequences of living in a patchy environment	1	(8)
A.J.A. Stewart
E.A. John
M.J. Hutchings
Ecological heterogeneity: an ontogeny of concepts and approaches	9	(24)
J.A. Wiens
Generation of heterogeneity by organisms: creation, maintenance and transformation	33	(20)
S.T.A. Pickett
M.L. Cadenasso
C.G. Jones
Heterogeneity, diversity and scale in plant communities	53	(18)
S.D. Wilson
Plant response to patchy soils	71	(20)
A. Fitter
A. Hodge
D. Robinson
The effects of heterogeneous nutrient supply on plant performance: a survey of responses, with special reference to clonal herbs	91	(20)
M.J. Hutchings
D.K. Wijesinghe
E.A. John
Plant competition in spatially heterogeneous environments	111	(20)
B.B. Casper
J.F. Cahill Jr
R.B. Jackson
Light heterogeneity in tropical rain forests: photosynthetic responses and their ecological consequences	131	(24)
J.R. Watling
M.C. Press
Heterogeneity in plant quality and its impact on the population ecology of insect herbivores	155	(26)
M.D. Hunter
R.E. Forkner
J.N. McNeil
Foraging ecology of animals in response to heterogeneous environments	181	(34)
J.S. Brown
Habitat heterogeneity and the behavioural and population ecology of host-parasitoid interactions	215	(22)
H.C.J. Godfray
C.B. Muller
A.R. Kraaijeveld
The effects of heterogeneity on dispersal and colonization in plants	237	(30)
M. Rees
M. Mangel
L. Turnbull
A. Sheppard
D. Briese
Genetic variation and adaptation in tree populations	267	(24)
D.H. Boshier
M.R. Billingham
Food webs and resource sheds: towards spatially delimiting trophic interactions	291	(24)
M.E. Power
W.E. Rainey
Habitat destruction and extinctions: predictions from metapopulation models	315	(18)
C. Dytham
Environmental heterogeneity and species survival in degraded tropical landscapes	333	(24)
R.T. Corlett
Ecological experiments in farmland conservation	357	(22)
D.W. Macdonald
R.E. Feber
F.H. Tattersall
P.J. Johnson
Environmental heterogeneity: effects on plants in restoration ecology	379	(22)
J.P. Bakker
Concluding remarks: a review of some open questions	401	(24)
J.H. Lawton
Index	425