1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465351203321

Autore

Chase Jonathan M

Titolo

Ecological niches [[electronic resource] ] : linking classical and contemporary approaches / / Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-15068-9

9786613150684

0-226-10181-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Interspecific interactions

Classificazione

WI 3060

Altri autori (Persone)

LeiboldMathew A

Disciplina

577.8/2

Soggetti

Niche (Ecology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-205).

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : history, context, and purpose -- 2. Revising the niche concept : definitions and mechanistic models -- 3. Comparing classical and contemporary niche theory -- 4. Designs and limitations of empirical approaches to the niche -- 5. Incorporating biological complexities -- 6. Environmental variability in time and space -- 7. Species sorting in communities -- 8. Community succession, assembly, and biodiversity -- 9. Niche relations within ecosystems -- 10. The evolutionary niche -- 11. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Why do species live where they live? What determines the abundance and diversity of species in a given area? What role do species play in the functioning of entire ecosystems? All of these questions share a single core concept-the ecological niche. Although the niche concept has fallen into disfavor among ecologists in recent years, Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold argue that the niche is an ideal tool with which to unify disparate research and theoretical approaches in contemporary ecology. Chase and Leibold define the niche as including both what an organism needs from its environment and how that organism's activities shape its environment. Drawing on the theory of consumer-resource interactions, as well as its graphical analysis, they develop a framework for understanding niches that is flexible enough



to include a variety of small- and large-scale processes, from resource competition, predation, and stress to community structure, biodiversity, and ecosystem function. Chase and Leibold's synthetic approach will interest ecologists from a wide range of subdisciplines.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910719611703321

Autore

Boutoulle Frédéric

Titolo

Routiers et mercenaires pendant la guerre de Cent ans : Hommage à Jonathan Sumption

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bordeaux : , : Ausonius Éditions, , 2023

ISBN

2-35613-574-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ButaudGermain

CazauxLoïc <1979->

ContaminePhilippe

CurryAnne

DeVriesKelly <1956->

Firnhaber-BakerJustine

GenetJean-Philippe

JammeArmand

JonesMichael

LainéFrançoise

MassonChristophe

ParaviciniWerner

PépinGuilhem <1976->

PrétouPierre

SavyNicolas

SchnerbBertrand

ToureilleValérie

Soggetti

History

armée contractuelle

permanente

chevauchée

guerre

hommes d'armes

logistique

mercenaires

pillage



routiers

tactique

violence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Les routiers et mercenaires de la guerre de Cent ans (1337-1453) ont longtemps été mal vus par les historiens à cause de leur rôle ambigu lors de cette guerre. Oscillant entre emploi par les pouvoirs princiers et une autonomie quasi-totale, leur place au sein du conflit franco-anglais pose toutefois de nombreuses questions que les actes de de colloque tentent de résoudre. Les contributions de ce volule écrites par des spécialistes de l'histoire de la guerre médiévale permettent de se faire une meilleure idée du complexe phénomène routier qui a eu sans doute une place plus importante que celle qui lui fut reconnu par l'historiographie jusqu'à une période récente.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795997903321

Autore

Solecki Sam

Titolo

The Etruscans in the modern imagination / / Sam Solecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-2280-1577-4

0-2280-1576-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

937.5

Soggetti

Etruscans

Europe Civilization Etruscan influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: The Return of the



Repressed -- Acknowledgments -- Antique Matters -- Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat … Assimilation … Return -- Creating a Taste for the Etruscans -- Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764) -- Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, -- Fashionable, and Popular -- William Blake: What Is an “Etruscan” Doing in “An Island in the Moon” (1784–85)? -- Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812) -- Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire -- Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers -- Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna -- Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen -- Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert -- Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych -- Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple -- Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour -- Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams -- The Etruscans after Lawrence -- Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and “After the Fireworks” (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry -- D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places (1932): The Invention of the Etruscans for the Twentieth Century and Margaret Drabble's Lawrentian -- The Dark Flood Rises (2016) -- Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933) -- Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit -- Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined -- The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the Cold War, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe -- Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians -- Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Note on Massimo Campigli -- Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and “Peoples Unlucky in History” -- Rika Lesser’s Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia -- Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) and William Gibson’s Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan? -- Anne Carson: “Canicula di Anna” (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria -- Afterword: Nostos -- Appendix: Etruscan Sightings -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.