The evolutionary biology of colonizing species /
Professor Parsons uses the colonizing species as a case study in the dynamics of microevolution at work in living systems. The colonizing species, a lie, and potentially disruptive force in a 'naïve' habitat, is studied primarily as an ecological phenotype and more generally as an ecologic...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1983.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: colonists and habitats
- Genetics and ecology
- Physical conditions, resources, and ecological phenotypes
- Variability in natural populations
- Genetic variability, ecological phenotypes, and stressful environments
- Colonizing phenotypes and genotypes
- Behavioural variability in natural populations
- Habitat selection
- The ecobehavioural phenotype: generalists and specialists
- The ecobehavioural phenotype: biological control and domestication
- Parasites and plants
- Discussion and conclusions.
