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Author : Joseph H. Connell
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Release Date : 1970
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Pages : 397 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 (3 Download)
Download Free Readings in Ecology and Ecological Genetics PDF by Joseph H. Connell Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Lowe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-04-01
ISBN : 1444311212
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (311 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics PDF by Andrew Lowe Full Book and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological Genetics addresses the fundamental problems of which of the many molecular markers should be used and how the resulting data should be analysed in clear, accessible language, suitable for upper-level undergraduates through to research-level professionals. A very accessible straightforward text to deal with this difficult topic - applying modern molecular techniques to ecological processes. Written by active researchers and teachers within the field. There will be an accompanying web site managed by the authors, comprising of worked examples, test data sets and hyperlinks to relevant web pages.
Author : Leslie Real
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-14
ISBN : 1400887267
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (887 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics PDF by Leslie Real Full Book and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents work by five distinguished ecological geneticists, offering an up-to-date source for theoretical concepts and experiments in an exciting field. Combining ecological fieldwork and laboratory genetics, ecological genetics examines the adjustments and adaptations of wild populations to their environments. Articles focus on important interactions between genetics and population ecology, delving into issues like gene flow and migration, population differentiation, the maintenance of genetic variation, and the demographic and spatial structure of populations. The contributors--Janis Antonovics, Michael Lynch, Montgomery Slatkin, Joseph Travis, and Sara Via--emphasize the importance of population size and structure, interaction between local selection and genetic drift, and an expanded phenotype including quantitative as well as qualitative characters. This new form of ecological genetics focuses on large-scale geographic variation in demographic and genetic dynamics among small, partially isolated populations and will prove extremely valuable in natural resource management and in rare or endangered species conservation. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : P. F. Brussard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN : 1461263301
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (263 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics PDF by P. F. Brussard Full Book and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, studies in ecological genetics have involved both field observations and laboratory genetic analyses. Comparisons and cor relations between these two kinds of data have provided valuable in formation on the genetic strategies behind the evolutionary adapta tions of species and their component local populations. Indeed, much of our current understanding of the dynamics of evolutionary pro cesses has come fro~ syntheses of ecological and genetic information. Since the recent discovery of abundant markers in the form of protein polymorphisms, scientific interest in the connections between genetics and ecology has quickened considerably. This volume contains the proceedings of the Society for the Study of Evolution's symposium, Genetics and Ecology: The Interface, held at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, June 12-15, 1977. This particular topic was selected because of a general feeling that a significant integration of genetics and ecology has developed in the last decade or so. Host ecologists no longer believe that each species has a characteristic and constant birth, death, and develonment rate, habitat preference, and so on, but that these para~eters vary a~ong populations and are at least partially under genetic control and sub ject to natural selection. Similarly, few population geneticists still view any species as infinitely large, panmictic, constant in numbers, and distributed evenly throughout its range.
Author : E. B. Ford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN : 9400958250
Pages : 442 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (958 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics PDF by E. B. Ford Full Book and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the experimental study of evolution and adaptation, carried out by means of combined field-work and laboratory genetics. That technique has been developed during the last forty years or so by my colleagues and myself, and by a small but increasing number of geneticists throughout the world. In discussing what has been achieved by these means many relevant pieces of work familiar to me have been omitted, while doubtless there are others that have escaped my attention. To those who have thus laboured without recognition here, I offer my apologies. Yet I would not include further examples were I writing again, and this for two reasons. First, my aim is not to produce a com pendium in the German fashion, for I have endeavoured to develop principles with enough instances to illustrate them but no more. Secondly, this book is in danger of becoming too long as it is: one which is in general consulted only in libraries, not read familiarly by students.
Author : Robert Creed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN : 1475704321
Pages : 391 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (74 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics and Evolution PDF by Robert Creed Full Book and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the privileges of appointment to a Chair at another University is that it gives one the right to talk to many distinguished people about their work and ideas. E. B. Ford was known to me before I came to Oxford as the author of a book on butterflies and as somewhat of an eccentric, but I was quite unprepared for the welcome he gave me into the Department of Zoology and for the enormous interest of the subject which he gradually revealed to me. My contact with the Genetics Laboratory was made easier by one of the first things I had to do. Within a few weeks of my arrival, it came to light that a new building for another department was to be erected on a piece of land, known to us as 'Henry's weed garden' but generally regarded as being derelict. Even my, at that time, elementary, knowledge of ecological genetics made it easy to realize that the population of caterpillars that had been under continuous observation there for eleven years put it in a rather special category of wilderness; although I did not succeed in saving it, I was able to persuade the university to substitute another experimental plot and this may have helped the geneticists to appreciate that the new professor was not only interested in electrical apparatus.
Author : George E. Jr. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN : 1461230608
Pages : 359 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (23 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics and Air Pollution PDF by George E. Jr. Taylor Full Book and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human activities influence the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere; examples are increases in troposphere concentrations of ozone, carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, heavy metals and UV-B radiation. Many of these changes can alter the physiological status of terrestrial vegetation through either inhibition or enhancement of growth and reproduction, thereby influencing the ability of sensitive plants to compete for limited resources. As a result, air pollution stress may be changing the genetic structure of plant populations. In this book, leading researchers with a broad, interdisciplinary range of expertise discuss the known and measurable effects of pollution on terrestrial vegetation within the framework of ecological genetics, as well as suitable experimental methodologies to analyze the often novel or unusual effects of such environmental stresses. For environmental researchers and managers, Ecological Genetics and Air Pollution will be a welcomed introduction to this field of growing importance for long-term ecological studies.
Author : J.S.F. Barker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-14
ISBN : 146848768X
Pages : 524 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (487 Download)
Download Free Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila PDF by J.S.F. Barker Full Book and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological and evolutionary genetics span many disciplines and virtually all levels of biological investigation, from the genetic information itself to the principles governing the complex organization of living things. The ideas and informa tion generated by ecological and evolutionary genetics provide the substance for strong inferences on the origins, changes and patterns of structural and functional organization in bio logical communi ties. It is the coordination of these ideas and thoughts that will provide the answers to many fundamental questions in biology. There is no doubt that Drosophilids provide strong model systems amenable to experimental manipulation and useful for testing pertinent hypotheses in ecological and evolutionary genetics. The chapters in this volume represent efforts to use Drosophila species for such a purpose. The volume consists of a dedication to William B. Heed, followed by four major sections: Ecological Genetics, Habitat Selection, Biochemical Genetics and Molecular Evolution. Each section is introduced by a short statement, and each chapter has an independent summary. The chapters contain the sub stance of talks given at a joint Australia-US workshop held January 5-10, 1989 at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia. We are indebted to the Division of International Programs of the National Science Foundation (USA) and to the Science and Technology Collaboration Section of the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce (Australia) for the provi sion of financial support under the US/Australia Science and Technology Agreement. Many people contributed to the preparation of this volume.
Author : Ilkka Hanski
Publisher : Academic Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 0123234484
Pages : 696 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (234 Download)
Download Free Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution of Metapopulations PDF by Ilkka Hanski Full Book and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial dynamics, landscape, population.
Author : Simon A. Levin
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Release Date : 2001
ISBN :
Pages : 16 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (951 Download)
Download Free Encyclopedia of Biodiversity PDF by Simon A. Levin Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles on agriculture, ecology, forests, wetlands, and environment, as well as organisms
Author : Jeffrey K. Conner
Publisher : Sinauer Associates Incorporated
Release Date : 2004-01
ISBN : 9780878932023
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (2 Download)
Download Free A Primer of Ecological Genetics PDF by Jeffrey K. Conner Full Book and published by Sinauer Associates Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers basic concepts in population and quantitative genetics, including measuring selection on phenotypic traits. The emphasis is on material applicable to field studies of evolution focusing on ecologically important traits. Topics addressed are critical for training students in ecology, evolution, conservation biology, agriculture, forestry, and wildlife management. Many texts in this field are too complex and mathematical to allow the average beginning student to readily grasp the key concepts. A Primer of Ecological Genetics, in contrast, employs mathematics and statistics-fully explained, but at a less advanced level-as tools to improve understanding of biological principles. The main goal is to enable students to understand the concepts well enough that they can gain entry into the primary literature. Integration of the different chapters of the book shows students how diverse concepts relate to each other.
Author : Natalie G. R. Bergholz
Publisher : Pensoft Publishers
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 9546422908
Pages : 197 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (422 Download)
Download Free Ecological Traits and Genetic Variation in Amazonian Populations of the Neotropical Millipede Poratia Obliterata (Kraus, 1960) (Diplopoda: Pyrgodesmidae) (Brazil) PDF by Natalie G. R. Bergholz Full Book and published by Pensoft Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Brisco Ford
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Release Date : 1964
ISBN :
Pages : 335 pages
Rating : 4.:/5 (31 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics PDF by Edmund Brisco Ford Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological genetics; Fluctuations in numbers; Genetic drift and the founder principle; Polygenic characters evolving in isolation; Sympatric evolution; The thory of genetic polymorphism.
Author : Samuel Karlin
Publisher : Elsevier
Release Date : 2012-12-02
ISBN : 0323142230
Pages : 846 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (142 Download)
Download Free population genetics and ecology PDF by Samuel Karlin Full Book and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Population Genetics and Ecology is a collection of papers presented at a 1975 conference-workshop held in Israel and is devoted to topics in population genetics and ecology. Contributors discuss topics related to population genetics and ecology, including the determinants of genetic variation in natural populations; experimental design and analysis of field and laboratory data; and theory and applications of mathematical models in population genetics. The book describes a number of field and laboratory studies that focus on a variety of spatial and temporal character and enzyme frequency patterns in natural populations, along with possible associations between these patterns and ecological parameters. This volume is organized into three sections encompassing 31 chapters and begins by summarizing the results of field and laboratory research that investigated gene frequency patterns in space and time of animal and plant populations. This book then explains the origin of new taxa; animal and plant domestication; variation in heritability related to parental age; and problems in the genetics of certain haplo-diploid populations. The next section offers a combination of data analyses and interpretations of related models, with some papers devoted to the origin of race formation and the interaction between sexual selection and natural selection. Among the theoretical studies presented are facets of selection migration interaction; stochastic selection effects; properties of density and frequency dependent selection; concepts and measures of genetic distance and speciation; aspects of altruism; and kin selection. This book will be of interest to naturalists, experimentalists, theoreticians, statisticians, and mathematicians.
Author : Loren Guerrero Ladin
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Release Date : 2006
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Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (15 Download)
Download Free Population Genetics and Local Adaptation in a Cyclically Parthenogenetic Aquatic Invertebrate PDF by Loren Guerrero Ladin Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Thomas Vawter
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Release Date : 1977
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Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.:/5 (31 Download)
Download Free Ecological Genetics of the European Cabbage Butterfly, Pieris Rapae, in North America PDF by Alfred Thomas Vawter Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release Date : 1992
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