Toward a More Exact Ecology : 30th Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Paperback)

Foreword; Preface; Part I. Introduction; 1. Toward a more exact ecology: a personal view of the issues P. J. Grubb; Part II. Physiological Processes in Free-Living Organisms; 2. Gas exchange of plants in the field S. P. Long; 3. Telemetric recording of physiological data from free-living animals P. J. Butler; 4. Determination of respiration rates of free-living animals by the double-labelling technique D. M. Bryant; Part III. Control of Population Size; 5. Analysis of insect population dynamics W. W. Murdoch; 6. Control of population size in birds: the grey partridge as a case study G. R. Potts and N. J. Aebischer; 7. Mechanisms in plant population control E. Van Der Meijden; Part IV. Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology; 8. The reproductive ecology of plants and eusocial animals D. G. Lloyd; 9. Comparative studies in evolutionary ecology: using the data base P. H. Harvey and M. D. Pagel; 10. An experimentalists approach to the role of costs of reproduction in the evolution of life-histories L. Partridge; Part V. Interrelationships between Organisms; 11. Factors affecting the relative abundance of forest tree species H. H. Shugart and D. L. Urban; 12. Insect herbivory and plant defence theory P. J. Edwards; 13. Butterfly-ant mutualisms N. E. Pierce; Part VI. Ecosystem Ecology; 14. Energy flow and productivity in the oceans R. E. Ulanowicz; 15. Soils as components and controllers of ecosystem processes E. A. Paul; 16. Forest decline in central Europe: the unravelling of multiple causes G. H. M. Krause; 17. Water pollution and the management of ecosystems: a case study of science and scientist B. Moss; 18. Toward an exact human ecology M. Slesser; Indexes.