Research Catalog

Title

Niche : theory and application / edited by Robert H. Whittaker and Simon A. Levin.

Author

Whittaker, Robert H. (Robert Harding), 1920-1980

Publication

Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : distributed by Halsted Press, [1975]

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Additional Authors

Levin, Simon A.

Description

xv, 448 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Benchmark papers in ecology ; 3

Subject

• Biotic communities
• Ecology
• Species

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

• Part I: Origin of the niche concept -- The niche-relationships of the California thrasher / Grinnell, J. -- The origin and distribution of the chestnut-backed chickadee / Grinnell, J. -- Animal ecology / Elton, C. -- The struggle for existence / Gause, G. F. -- Part II: The competitive exclusion principle -- The competitive exclusion principle / Hardin, G. -- Variations and fluctuations of the number of individuals in animal species living together / Volterra, V. -- The struggle for existence / Gause, G. F. -- Community equilibria and stability, and an extension of the competitive exclusion principle / Levin, S. A. -- Part III: Niche axes -- On bird species diversity: II. Prediction of bird census from habitat measurements / MacArthur, R. H., J. W. MacArthur, and J. Preer -- The niche exploitation pattern of the blue-gray gnatcatcher / Root, R. B. -- Distributional ecology of New Guinea birds / Diamond, J. M. -- Food web complexity and species diversity / Paine, R. T. --^
• Experimental populations of hydrida / Slobodkin, L. B. -- Interspecific competition between two species of bean weevil / Utida, S. -- Communities and ecosystems / Whittaker, R. H. -- Population regulation and genetic feedback / Pimentel, D. -- Genotype, environment, and population numbers / Ayala, F. J. -- The paradox of the plankton / Hutchinson, G. E. -- Part IV: Niche and habitat dimensions -- A treatise on limnology: Vol. II. Introduction to lake biology and the limnoplankton / Hutchinson, G. E. -- Comparative ecology of the interstitial fauna of fresh-water and marine beaches / Pennak, R. W. -- Gradient analysis of vegetation / Whittaker, R. H. -- A study of plankton copepod communities in the Columbia Basin, Southeastern Washington / Whittaker, R. H. and C. W. Fairbanks -- Constellation of frequent herbage plants, based on their correlation in occurrence / de Vries, D. M., J. P. Baretta, and G. Hamming --^
• Distribution on environmental gradients: Theory and a preliminary interpretation of distributional patterns in the avifauna of the cordillera vilcabamba, Peru / Terborgh, J. -- Ordinations of habitat relationships among breeding birds / James, F. C. -- Niche overlap as a function of environmental variability / May, R. M. and R. H. MacArthur -- Niche overlap and diffuse competition / Pianka, E. R. -- Evolution in changing environments: Some theoretical explorations / Levins, R. -- On the measurement of niche breadth and overlap / Colwell, R. K. and D. J. Futuyma -- Niche breadth and dominance of parasitic insects sharing the same host species / Price, P. W. -- Part V: Variation in space and time -- Character displacement / Brown, W. L., Jr., and E. O. Wilson -- The evolution of bill size differences among sympatric congeneric species of birds / Schoener, T. W. -- Morphological variation and width of ecological niche / Van Valen, L. --^
• The theory of island biogeography / MacArthur, R. H., and E. O. Wilson -- Part VI: Case histories -- The competitive structure of communities: An experimental approach with protozoa / Vandermeer, J. H. -- Population ecology of some warblers of northeastern coniferous forests / MacArthur, R. H. -- Mesopsocus populations on larch in England -- The distribution and dynamics of two closely-related coexisting species of psocoptera sharing the same food resource / Broadhead, E., and A. J. Wapshere -- Some aspects of the ecology of migrant shorebirds / Recher, H. F. -- Part VII: Conclusion -- Concluding remarks / Hutchinson, G. E. -- The theory of the niche / MacArthur, R. H. -- Niche, habitat, and ecotope / Whittaker, R. H., S. A. Levin, and R. B. Root.

ISBN

0470941170

LCCN

^^^74023328^//r91

OCLC

1093587

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