Adaptive Herbivore Ecology: From Resources To Populations In Variable Environments

by Norman Owen-Smith

Overview

The adaptation of herbivore behavior to seasonal and geo- graphic variations in vegetation quantity and quality is inadequately modeled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive behavior to their consequences for population dynamics and community ecology, through the application of a metaphysiological modeling approach. The modeling approach accommodates various sources of environmental variability, in space and time, in a simple conceptual way and has the potential to be applied to other consumer-resource systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781868144273
Publisher:	Wits University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2006
Edition description:	STUDENT
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Norman Owen-Smith is a research professor in African ecology and heads the Centre for African Ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.