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Preface | |
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Chapter Summaries | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Evolution and Ecology: a Janus Perspective? | |
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Evolutionary biology | |
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Ecology | |
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The emergence of a science of adaptive strategies | |
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Summary | |
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Primary Strategies: the Ideas | |
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MacArthur's 'blurred vision' | |
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The mechanism of convergence; trade-offs | |
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The theory of r- and K-selection | |
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CSR Theory | |
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Summary | |
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Primary Adaptive Strategies in Plants | |
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The search for adaptive strategies | |
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Theoretical work | |
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Measuring variation in plant traits: screening programmes | |
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Screening of plant growth rates | |
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The Integrated Screening Programme | |
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Further trait screening | |
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The application of CSR theory | |
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Virtual plant strategies | |
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Summary | |
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Primary Adaptive Strategies in Organisms Other Than Plants | |
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The architecture of the tree of life | |
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r, K and beyond K | |
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Empirical evidence for three primary strategies in animals | |
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The universal three-way trade-off | |
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Mammalia (mammals) | |
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Aves (avian therapods) | |
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Squamata (snakes and lizards) (with notes on other extant reptile clades) | |
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Amphibia (amphibians) | |
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Osteichthyes (bony fishes) | |
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Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) | |
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Insecta (insects) | |
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Aracnida (spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks) | |
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Crustacea (crustaceans) | |
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Echinodermata (sea urchins, starfish, crinoids, sea cucumbers) | |
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Mollusca (snails, clams, squids) | |
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Annelida (segmented worms) | |
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Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, jellyfish, hydras, sea pens) | |
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Eumycota (fungi) (including notes on lichens) | |
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Archaea | |
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Proteobacteria | |
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Firmicutes | |
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Cyanobacteria | |
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Viruses | |
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Extinct groups | |
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Universal adaptive strategy theory - the evolution of CSR and beyond K theories | |
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First steps towards a universal methodology | |
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Summary | |
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From Adaptive Strategies to Communities | |
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Plant communities | |
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Productive disturbed communities | |
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Productive undisturbed communities | |
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Unproductive relatively undisturbed communities | |
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Plant community composition | |
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The humped-back model | |
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Origins | |
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Formulation | |
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Independent confirmation and compatibility with new research | |
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Species-pools, filters and community composition | |
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Evidence for the action of twin filters | |
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Additional mechanisms promoting diversity | |
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Genetic diversity, intraspecific functional diversity and species diversity | |
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Microbial communities | |
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The effects of plant strategies on soil microbial communities | |
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Facilitation in bacterial communities | |
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Coexistence in marine surface waters | |
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Novel techniques for investigating microbial adaptive strategies | |
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Animal communities | |
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Primary producers delimit animal diversity/productivity relationships | |
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Twin filters and animal community assembly | |
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Adaptive radiation and community assembly | |
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Summary | |
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From Strategies to Ecosystems | |
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Back to Bayreuth | |
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The Darwinian basis of ecosystem assembly | |
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How do primary adaptive strategies drive ecosystem functioning? | |
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The plant traits that drive ecosystems | |
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The propagation of trait influences through food chains | |
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Complicating factors | |
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Ecosystem processes | |
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Dominance and mass ratio effects | |
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Fluxes and feedbacks between communities | |
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Top-down control by herbivores | |
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Top-down control by carnivores | |
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The key role of eco-evolutionary dynamics | |
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Summary | |
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The Path from Evolution to Ecology | |
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What has been learned? | |
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What are the implications for conservation and management? | |
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Research priorities for the next decade | |
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References | |
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Organism Index | |
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Subject Index | |