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Long-Term Studies of Vertebrate Communities [Hardcover]

Martin L. Cody (Editor), Jeffrey A. Smallwood (Editor)

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0121780759 978-0121780753 October 29, 1996 1
This unique book synthesizes the ongoing long-term community ecology studies of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The studies have been conducted from deserts to rainforests as well as in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats and provide valuable insight that can be obtained only through persistent, diligent, and year-after-year investigation.
Long-Term Studies of Vertebrate Communities is ideal for faculty, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates in vertebrate biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, including ecology, natural history, and systematics.

Key Features
* Provides unique perspectives of community stability and variation
* Details the influence of natural and other perturbations on community structure
* Includes synopses by well-known authors
* Presents results from a broad range of vertebrate taxa
* Studies were conducted at different latitudes and in different habitats

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"I admire the enthusiasm, dedication, and persistence of these authors for their interest in the natural history of their systems."
--AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST

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This unique book synthesizes the ongoing long-term community ecology studies of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The studies have been conducted from deserts to rainforests as well as in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats and provide valuable insight that can be obtained only through persistent, diligent, and year-after-year investigation.
Key Features
* Provides unique perspectives of community stability and variation
* Details the influence of natural and other perturbations on community structure
* Includes synopses by well-known authors
* Presents results from a broad range of vertebrate taxa
* Studies were conducted at different latitudes and in different habitats
Long-Term Studies of Vertebrate Communities is ideal for faculty, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates in vertebrate biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, including ecology, natural history, and systematics.

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In view of the wide disparity of approaches among ecologists to their science, it is notable that considerable concordance exists in at least one respect: long-term studies are widely regarded as indispensable, and thus no elaborate case need be made for their justification. Read the first page
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quads occupied, rat removal plots, gleaning frugivores, patch reef assemblages, equal access plots, frugivorous guild, lizard species diversity, fortis numbers, eastern chestnut mouse, painted turtle population, pond hydroperiod, common dunnart, fragmented site, small granivores, catchability estimates, initial larval density, regeneration age, wide forager, rubberlip surfperch, gleaning insectivores, paruline warblers, reef fish assemblages, finch numbers, metamorphosing juveniles, continuous site
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New York, King Harbor, Rainbow Bay, Academic Press, New Holland, Southern Oscillation, One Tree Reef, Cambridge Univ, Caño Maraca, Teague Bay, Bat Project, North Carolina, Princeton Univ, San Diego, Great Barrier Reef, Grand Teton National Park, Long-Term Studies of Vertebrate Communities Copyright, Southern California Bight, Chicago Press, Jackson Hole, Loben Sels, North Dakota, Summary References, United States, Indo-West Pacific
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