Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 compare fundamental ecology across the gamut of size. The explosion of molecular biology and the application of its techniques to microbiology and organismal biology have particularly demonstrated the need for interdisciplinary understanding. This updated and expanded edition remains unique. It treats the same topics at greater depth and includes an exhaustive compilation of both the most recent relevant literature in microbial ecology and plant/animal ecology, as well as the early research papers that shaped the concepts and theories discussed. Among the completely updated topics in the book are phylogenetic systematics, search algorithms and optimal foraging theory, comparative metabolism, the origins of life and evolution of multicellularity, and the evolution of life cycles.From Reviews of the First Edition:
"John Andrews has succeeded admirably in building a bridge that is accessible to all ecologists." -Ecology
"I recommend this book to all ecologists. It is a thoughtful attempt to integrate ideas from, and develop common themes for, two fields of ecology that should not have become fragmented." -American Scientist
"Such a synthesis is long past due, and it is shameful that ecologists (both big and little) have been so parochial." -The Quarterly Review of Biology
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1 Introduction: Prospects for a Conceptual Synthesis1.1. Organizing Life1.2. Microorganisms and Macroorganisms: Differences and Similarities1.3 The Centrality of Natural Selection1.4 Analogies, Homologies, and Homoplasies1.5 A Framework for Comparisons1.6 What is an Individual?1.7 Summary1.8 Suggested Additional Reading2 Genetic Variation2.1 Introduction2.2 Mechanisms2.3 Sex and Meiotic Recombination 2.4 The Asexual Lifestyle2.5 Somatic Variation, Heritable Variation, and the Concept of the Genet2.6 Summary2.7 Suggested Additional Reading
3 Nutritional Mode3.1 Introduction3.2 Carbon and Energy Resources3.3 Resource Acquisition3.4 Nutritional Versatility3.5 Generalists and Specialists3.6 Summary3.7 Suggested Additional Reading
4 Size4.1 Introduction4.2 Changes in Size and Development of Life on Earth4.3 On Seeing the World as an Elephant or a Mycoplasma4.4 Some Correlates of Size4.5 Some Ecological Consequences of Size4.6 Size and Life History Theory4.7 Summary4.8 Suggested Additional Reading
5 Growth and Growth Form5.1 Introduction5.2 Unitary and Modular Organisms: An Overview5.3 Fungi as Modular Organisms5.4 Bacteria as Modular Organisms 5.5 Life Histories of Modular vs. Unitary Organisms5.6 Summary5.7 Suggested Additional Reading
6 The Life Cycle6.1 Introduction6.2 Origins and General Considerations6.3 Complex Life Cycles6.4 Senescence6.5 Summary6.6 Suggested Additional Reading<
7 The Environment7.1 Introduction7.2 The Environment and Organism are Tightly Coupled7.3 How Organisms Experience Environments7.4 Organism Size and Environmental Variation7.5 Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation7.6 The Environment and Life Cycle Changes 7.7 Habitable Sites and the Evolution of Dispersal 7.8 Summary.- 7.9 Suggested Additional Reading
8 Conclusion: Commonalities and Differences in Life Histories 8.1 Levels of Comparison8.2 On Being a Macroorganism or a Microorganism8.3 Natural Selection as the Common Denominator8.4 Recapitulation of Some
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Major Points8.5 On the Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms 8.6 Summary
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Autoren-Porträt von John H. Andrews
John Andrews was born in Montreal, Canada and did his undergraduate education in agriculture at McGill University. He received graduate degrees from the University of Maine and the University of California, Davis, followed by postdoctoral work at Cambridge University and the University of British Columbia. He was recruited to the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served for 35 years teaching and doing research in the areas of microbial ecology, plant pathology, and integrated pest management, among several others. He retired in 2010.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John H. Andrews
- 2018, 2. Aufl., XVII, 349 Seiten, Masse: 15,5 x 23,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1493983318
- ISBN-13: 9781493983315
Sprache:
Englisch
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