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  • Everything Evolves

    Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

    by Mark Vellend ...
    How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligenceEverything Evolves reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial intelligence capable of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Theory of Ecological Communities

    by Mark Vellend ...
    Series Book 57 - Monographs in Population Biology
    A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of community ecology—understanding patterns of diversity and composition of biological variants across space ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Princeton Guide to Ecology

    Edited by Michel Loreau, Brian Walker, Simon A. Levin, Stephen R. Carpenter, H. Charles J. Godfray, Ann P. Kinzig, David S. Wilcove, Jonathan B. Losos ...
    The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an international team of leading ecologists, the book contains more than ninety clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • From Populations to Ecosystems

    Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis

    by Michel Loreau ...
    Series Book 46 - Monographs in Population Biology
    The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From Populations to Ecosystems proposes an innovative theoretical synthesis ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Theory

    A Hierarchical Perspective

    Edited by Niles Eldredge, Telmo Pievani, Emanuele Serrelli, Ilya Tëmkin ...
    The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and integrated into yet more encompassing ecosystems. In the face of such awe-inspiring complexity, there is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Synergistic Selection: How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution And The Rise Of Humankind

    by Peter A Corning ...
    'Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy.' Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, 'life on Earth has been a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Spatial Ecology: Patterns and Processes

    by Vikas Rai ...
    Spacial Ecology elucidates processes and mechanisms which structure dynamics of real world systems; these include lakes, ponds, forests and rivers. Readers are introduced to contemporary models in ecological literature based on the authors research experience. The e-book starts by presenting an introduction to basic mechanisms of ecological processes. This is followed by chapters explaining these ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems

    by Peter Petraitis ...
    One of the most interesting and vexing problems in ecology is how distinctly different communities of plants and animals can occur in the same ecosystem. The theory of these systems, known as multiple stable states, is well understood, but whether multiple stable states actually exist in nature has remained a hotly debated subject. Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems provides a broad and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Metacommunity Ecology

    by Mathew A. Leibold, Jonathan M. Chase ...
    Series Book 59 - Monographs in Population Biology
    Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity—with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has focused on evaluating the relative importance of distinct processes, with niche-based environmental ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity

    Conceptual and Practical Challenges

    Edited by Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva, Davide Vecchi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. ... Read more

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  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series series Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Darwin's Doubt

    The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

    by Stephen C. Meyer ...
    When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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