Time in Ecology: A Theoretical Framework [Mpb 61]

by Eric Post

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production. Post uses insights from phenology--the study of the timing of life-cycle events--to present a theoretical framework of time in ecology that casts long-standing observations in the field in an entirely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691163863
• ISBN13: 9780691163864
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"