LEADER 03380nam 22006732 450 001 9910462792003321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-23665-7 010 $a1-139-61079-1 010 $a1-139-60906-8 010 $a1-139-61265-4 010 $a1-139-62195-5 010 $a1-283-98668-X 010 $a1-139-62567-5 010 $a1-139-20853-5 010 $a1-139-61637-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000326626 035 $a(EBL)1099907 035 $a(OCoLC)827212238 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430478 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844957 035 $a(PQKB)11494990 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139208536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1099907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1099907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL429918 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000326626 100 $a20111206d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCharacter as moral fiction /$fMark Alfano$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-53812-2 311 $a1-107-02672-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: tripartite naturalistic ethics -- Identifying the hard core of virtue ethics -- Rearticulating the situationist challenge -- Attempts to defend virtue ethics -- Factitious moral virtue -- Expanding the situationist challenge to responsibilist virtue epistemology -- Expanding the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology -- Factitious intellectual virtue -- To see as we are seen: a n investigation of social distance heuristics. 330 $aEveryone wants to be virtuous, but recent psychological investigations suggest that this may not be possible. 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Petchey and Jennifer A. Dunne9. EcosystemsKristina J. Anderson-Teixeira and Peter M. Vitousek10. Rates of metabolism and evolutionJohn L. Gittleman and Patrick R. Stephens11. Biodiversity and its energetic and thermalcontrols, 120David StorchPart II: Selected Organisms and Topics12. MicroorganismsJordan G. Okie13. PhytoplanktonElena Litchman14. Land plants: new theoretical directions and empirical prospectsBrian J. Enquist and Lisa Patrick Bentley15. Marine invertebratesMary I. O'Connor and John F. Bruno16. Insect metabolic ratesJames S. Waters and Jon F. Harrison17. Terrestrial vertebratesWilliam Karasov18. Seabirds and marine mammalsDaniel P. Costa and Scott A. Shaffer19. ParasitesRyan F. Hechinger, Kevin D. Lafferty, and Armand M. Kuris20. Human ecologyMarcus J. Hamilton, Oskar Burger, and Robert S. WalkerPart III: Practical Applications21. Marine ecology and fisheriesSimon Jennings, Ken H. Andersen, and Julia L. Blanchard22. Conservation biologyAlison G. Boyer and Walter Jetz23. Climate changeKristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Felisa A. Smith, and S. K. Morgan Ernest24. Beyond biologyMelanie E. Moses and Stephanie Forrest25. Synthesis and prospectJames H. Brown, Richard M. Sibly, and Astrid Kodric-BrownGlossaryReferencesIndexUpdates and additional resources for this book are available from:http://www.wiley.com/go/sibly/metabolicecology. 330 $a"Most of ecology is about metabolism: the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of individuals - their metabolic rates - vary predictably with their body size and temperature. Ecological interactions are exchanges of energy and materials between organisms and their environments. So metabolic rate affects ecological processes at all levels: individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. Each chapter focuses on a different process, level of organization, or kind of organism. It lays a conceptual foundation and presents empirical examples. 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