Strictly speaking, a community is composed of all the organisms that live together in a
particular habitat. Community structure concerns all the various ways in which the members …

The evolution of" niche breadth," or" niche width," was a more popular topic in the
evolutionary ecological literature of the 1960s and 1970s than it has been recently (109 …

There is a tendency among biologists studying social behavior to regard the adult sex ratio
as an independent variable to which the species reacts with appropriate adaptations. D …

Body size is manifestly one of the most important attributes of an organism from an
ecological and evolutionary point of view. Size has a predominant influence on an animal's …

Natural history is replete with observations on feeding, yet only recently lhave investigators
begun to treat feeding as a device whose performance-as measured in net energy …

The tiny island of South Bimini contains 4 species of lizards of he genus Anolis, a number
surpassed only on the 4 largest islands of the Greater Antilles and on 2 very large and …

Can sexual dimorphism evolve because of ecological differences between the sexes?
Although several examples of this phenomenon are well known from studies on birds, the …

Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based
on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well …

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Detailed data (numbers of species, numbers of individuals, measures of species diversity,
evenness, dry weight) are presented on the adult beetles, adult bugs, or all arthropods, in …