Population and Community Ecology of Ontogenetic Development

by Andre de Roos and Lennart Persson

Most organisms show substantial changes in size or morphology after they become independent of their parents and have to find their own food. Furthermore, the rate at which these changes occur generally depends on the amount of food they ingest. In this book, Andr de Roos and Lennart Persson advance a synthetic and individual-based theory of the effects of this plastic ontogenetic development on the dynamics of populations and communities.De Roos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137579
• ISBN13: 9780691137575
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"