Monographs in Population Biology
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Monographs in Population Biology

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Monographs in Population Biology

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Most organisms show substantial changes in size or morphology after they become independent of their parents and have to find their own food. Furthermore, the rate at which these changes occur generally depends on the amount of food they ingest. In this book, André de Roos and Lennart Persson advance a synthetic and individual-based theory of the effects of this plastic ontogenetic development on the dynamics of populations and communities.
De Roos and Persson show how the effects of ontogenetic development on ecological dynamics critically depend on the efficiency with which differently sized individuals convert food into new biomass. Differences in this efficiency--or ontogenetic asymmetry--lead to bottlenecks in and thus population regulation by either maturation or reproduction. De Roos and Persson investigate the community consequences of these bottlenecks for trophic configurations that vary in the number and type of interacting species and in the degree of ontogenetic niche shifts exhibited by their individuals. They also demonstrate how insights into the effects of maturation and reproduction limitation on community equilibrium carry over to the dynamics of size-structured populations and give rise to different types of cohort-driven cycles.
Featuring numerous examples and tests of modeling predictions, this book provides a pioneering and extensive theoretical and empirical treatment of the ecology of ontogenetic growth and development in organisms, emphasizing the importance of an individual-based perspective for understanding population and community dynamics.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781400845613
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Population and Community Ecology of Ontogenetic Development
  3. MONOGRAPHS IN POPULATION BIOLOGY
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. PART I: SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION
  9. PART II: ONTOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
  10. PART III: ONTOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
  11. PART IV: EXTENSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
  12. Technical Appendices
  13. References
  14. Index