Screen LibraryComparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms /
This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual synthesis of microbial ecology with plant and animal ecology. Drawing on examples from the biology of microorganisms and macroorganisms, this textbook provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to ecology. The focus is the individual...
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Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6897-8 |
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This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual synthesis of microbial ecology with plant and animal ecology. Drawing on examples from the biology of microorganisms and macroorganisms, this textbook provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to ecology. The focus is the individual organism and comparisons are made along six axes: genetic variation, nutritional mode, size, growth, life cycle, and influence of the environment. When it was published in 1991, the first edition of Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms was unique in its attempt to clearly compa |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781493968978 |
| Index Number: | QR100 |
| CLC: | Q938.1 |
| Contents: | 1 Introduction: Prospects for a Conceptual Synthesis -- 1.1. Organizing Life -- 1.2. Microorganisms and Macroorganisms: Differences and Similarities -- 1.3 The Centrality of Natural Selection -- 1.4 Analogies, Homologies, and Homoplasies -- 1.5 A Framework for Comparisons -- 1.6 What is an Individual? -- 1.7 Summary -- 1.8 Suggested Additional Reading -- 2 Genetic Variation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mechanisms -- 2.3 Sex and Meiotic Recombination -- 2.4 The Asexual Lifestyle -- 2.5 Somatic Variation, Heritable Variation, and the Concept of the Genet -- 2.6 Summary -- 2.7 Suggested Additiona |