The fields of economics and ecology share more than terminology: economic models have
proven valuable for describing diverse aspects of animal behavior (28, 107, 119); ecological …

▪ Abstract An important aim of plant ecology is to identify leading dimensions of ecological
variation among species and to understand the basis for them. Dimensions that can readily …

Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively
few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today's terrestrial …

Leaf size varies by over a 100,000-fold among species worldwide. Although 19th-century
plant geographers noted that the wet tropics harbor plants with exceptionally large leaves …

The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics brings together the findings and
ideas of researchers studying such varied systems as marine invertebrate communities; …

Whole-plant energy capture depends not only on the photosynthetic response of individual
leaves, but also on their integration into an effective canopy, and on the costs of producing …

Leaf area (LA), mass per area (LMA), nitrogen per unit area (Narea) and the leaf‐internal to
ambient CO2 ratio (χ) are fundamental traits for plant functional ecology and vegetation …

Community assembly processes are thought to shape the mean, spread, and spacing of
functional trait values within communities. Two broad categories of assembly processes …

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 …

Here is one biologist's interpretation of the chronology of life during the last six hundred
million years of earth history: an extended essay that draws on the author's own data and a …