New Ecology: Novel Approaches to Interactive Systems

Introduction: Is There a New Ecology? (P. Price, et al). PART I. RESOURCES AND POPULATIONS. The Variation Principle: Individual Plants as Temporal and Spatial Mosaics of Resistance to Rapidly Evolving Pests. (T. Whitham, et al). Microorganisms as Mediators of Plant Resource Exploitation by Insect Herbivores. (C. Jones). Role of the Host Plant and Parasites in Regulating Insect Herbivore Abundance (G. Frankie & D. Morgan). PART II. LIFE HISTORY STRATEGIES. Boundaries to Life History Variation and Evolution. (C. Istock). Behavior, Genes, and Life Histories: Complex Adaptations in Uncertain Environments. (H. Dingle). Complex Life Cycles and Community Organization in Amphibians (H. Wibur). PART III. ECOLOGY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. Resources and the Evolution of Social Behavior. (C. Slobodchikoff). Genetic Constraints on Adaptation, with Special Reference to Social Behavior. (R. Michod). Sociality and Survivorship in Animals Exposed to Predation. (T. Caraco & H. Pulliam). PART IV. ORGANIZATION OF COMMUNITIES. Density-Vague Ecology and Liberal Population Regulation in Insects. (D. Strong). Herbivore Community Organization: General Models and Specific Tests with Phytophagous Insects. (J. Lawton). Alternative Paradigms in Community Ecology. (P. Price). PART V. SYNTHESIS. What2s New? Community Ecology Discovers Biology. (R. Colwell). Resource Systems, Populations, and Communities. (J. Wiens). Mutualistic Interactions in Population and Community Processes. (J. Addicott). The Importance of Scale in Community Ecology: A Kelp Forest Example with Terrestrial Analogs. (P. Dayton & M. Tegner). Index.Price, Peter W. is the author of 'New Ecology: Novel Approaches to Interactive Systems', published 1984 under ISBN 9780471896708 and ISBN 0471896705.