Book ID: 92041
Holyoak, Marcel, Mathew A. Leibold and Robert D. Hold
Metacommunities. Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. 2005. 73 line drawings. 1 halftone. 520 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Takes the hallmarks of metapopulation theory to the nextlevel by considering a group of communities, each of which may containnumerous populations, connected by species interactions withincommunities and the movement of individuals between communities. Inexamining communities open to dispersal, the book unites a broad rangeof ecological theories, presenting some of the first empirical investigations and revealing the value of the metacommunity approach.