ISBN10: 1402002297, ISBN13: 9781402002298, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Competition is one of the most important factors controlling the distribution and abundance of living creatures. Sperm cells racing up reproductive tracts, beetle larvae battling inside single seeds, birds defending territories, and trees interfering with the light available to neighbours, are all engaged in competition for limited resources. Along with predation and mutualism, competition is one of the three major biological forces that assemble living communities. Recent experimental work, much of it only from the last few decades, has enhanced human knowledge of the prevalence of competition in nature. There are acacia trees that use ants to damage vines, beetles that compete in arenas for access to dung balls, tadpoles that apparently poison their neighbours, birds that smash the eggs of potential competitors, and plants that associate with fungi in order to increase access to soil resources. While intended as an up-to-date reference work on the state of this branch of ecology, the many non-technical examples will make interesting reading for those with a general interest in nature. Greatly expanded from the first prize-winning edition, there are entirely new chapters, including one on resources and another on competition gradients in nature. The author freely ranges across all major taxonomic groups in search of evidence. ...
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Dordrecht Springer 2001 2nd 2001 ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 552 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Population and Community Biology, 26.

Dordrecht Springer 2001 2nd 2001 ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 552 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Population and Community Biology, 26.

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