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ON THE WINGS OF CHECKERSPOTS
A MODEL SYSTEM FOR POPULATION BIOLOGY |
| By: |
Paul R. Ehrlich, Ilkka Hanski |
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Hardback |
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£127.50 |
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£111.56 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019515827X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195158274 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
18 March, 2004 |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Description: |
This book is a collaboration of two leading workers laying out the insights into population biology, ecology and conservation biology that can be gained through intensive and long-term investigation of a judiciously chosen model system, the populations of checkerspot butterflies that Ehrlich and colleagues have worked on in California, and the Finnish populations that Hanski has investigated. Hanski is the leading thinker and worker on metapopulation ecology, one ofthe hotter areas in ecology currently, and Ehrlich is one of the leading ecologists/conservation biologists. This book will report on and synthesize the major long-term research of both workers' careers on the population biology of checkerspot butterflies. It is very likely to be received as aclassic work of population biology, studied by all or most graduate students in ecology, conservation biology, and population biology, and read and referred to by a very broad range of theoretical organismic biologists. |
| Synopsis: |
Checkerspot butterflies have been used as an extraordinarily successful model system for more than four decades. This volume presents the first synthesis of the broad range of studies of that system as conducted in Ehrlich's research group in Stanford, in Hanski's research group in Helsinki and elsewhere. Ehrlich's long - term research project on Edith's checkerspot helped establish an intergrated disipline of population biology in the 1960s and ever since has contributed many fundamental insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations. Hanski's and his associates' work an the Glanville fritillary for the past 14 years has been instrumental in establishing the field of metapopulation biology and showing how theoretical and empirical work can be effectively combined in the same project. |
| Illustrations: |
15pp colour plates, numerous tables and figures |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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