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Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems [[electronic resource] ] : Effects and Responses
| Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems [[electronic resource] ] : Effects and Responses |
| Autore | Lake P. Sam |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
| Disciplina |
595.76/49
595.7649 |
| Soggetto topico |
Droughts
Dung beetles --Ecology Dung beetles --Evolution Freshwater ecology SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology Earth & Environmental Sciences Zoology Health & Biological Sciences Meteorology & Climatology Invertebrates & Protozoa |
| ISBN |
1-283-17811-7
9786613178114 1-4443-4181-2 1-4443-4178-2 |
| Classificazione | SCI020000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
DROUGHT and AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: Effects and Responses; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the nature of droughts; 1.1 The social and economic damage of drought; 1.2 Major characteristics of drought; 1.3 The formation of droughts; 1.4 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and drought; 1.5 Other important oscillations creating drought; 1.6 Drought in Australia; 2 Types of drought and their assessment; 2.1 Drought monitoring and indices; 2.2 Meteorological drought; 2.3 Hydrological drought; 3 The perturbation of hydrological drought; 3.1 Refuges and drought
3.2 Traits and adaptations to drought3.3 The nature of studies on drought in aquatic ecosystems; 4 Droughts of the past: dendrochronology and lake sediments; 4.1 Indicators of past droughts; 4.1.1 Dendrochronology; 4.1.2 Indicators from lakes: tree stumps and sediments; 4.2 Impacts of past drought on lakes; 4.3 Droughts of the Holocene; 4.3.1 Early and mid-Holocene droughts; 4.3.2 Late Holocene droughts; 5 Water bodies, catchments and the abiotic effects of drought; 5.1 Water body types; 5.2 Aquatic ecosystems, their catchments and drought; 5.3 Drought and effects on catchments 5.4 Riparian zones and drought5.5 Sequence of changes in water bodies with drying; 5.6 Changes in water quality with drought in lentic systems; 5.7 Drought in connected lakes; 5.8 Drought and water quality in flowing waters; 5.9 Drought and benthic sediments; 5.10 The breaking of drought - re-wetting and the return of flows; 5.11 Concluding remarks; 5.12 The next chapters; 6 Drought and temporary waters; 6.1 Drought and the biota of temporary waters; 6.1.1 Algae; 6.1.2 Vascular plants; 6.2 Fauna of temporary standing waters and drought; 6.2.1 Fish of temporary lentic waters 6.2.2 Invertebrates6.2.3 Invertebrates in regional standing water bodies of differing hydroperiods; 6.3 Insights from experimental studies of drought in temporary waters; 6.4 The biota of temporary streams and drought; 6.4.1 Drying in desert streams; 6.4.2 Mediterranean streams; 6.4.3 Dryland streams; 6.5 Drying and recovery in temporary wetlands and streams; 6.6 Conclusions; 7 Drought, floodplain rivers and wetland complexes; 7.1 Drought and floodplain systems; 7.2 Drought and the biota of floodplain systems; 7.2.1 Vascular plants; 7.2.2 Phytoplankton; 7.2.3 Zooplankton; 7.2.4 Benthos 7.3 Floodplain rivers, fish and drought7.3.1 Fish and the mainstem channel; 7.3.2 Drought and adaptations of floodplain fish; 7.4 Drought, fish assemblages and floodplain rivers; 7.5 Summary; 7.6 Large wetland complexes with seasonal flooding; 7.6.1 The Florida Everglades; 7.6.2 Drought and crustaceans of the Everglades; 7.6.3 Drought and fish of the Everglades; 7.6.4 Summary; 7.7 Amphibious and terrestrial vertebrates; 7.7.1 Amphibians; 7.7.2 Reptiles and mammals; 7.7.3 Waterbirds; 7.7.4 Summary; 8 Drought and perennial waters: plants and invertebrates; 8.1 Drought and lentic systems 8.1.1 Drought in Lake Chilwa |
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Drought and aquatic ecosystems : effects and responses / / P. Sam Lake
| Drought and aquatic ecosystems : effects and responses / / P. Sam Lake |
| Autore | Lake P. S |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
| Disciplina | 595.76/49 |
| Soggetto topico |
Dung beetles - Ecology
Dung beetles - Evolution |
| ISBN |
1-283-17811-7
9786613178114 1-4443-4181-2 1-4443-4178-2 |
| Classificazione | SCI020000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Reproductive competition and its impact on the evolution and ecology of dung beetles (Leigh W. Simmons and T. James Ridsdill-Smith) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Competition for mates and the evolution of morphological diversity -- 1.3 Competition for resources and the evolution of breeding strategies -- 1.4 Ecological consequences of intraspecific and interspecific competition -- 1.5 Conservation -- 1.6 Concluding remarks -- 2. The evolutionary history and diversification of dung beetles (T. Keith Philips) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Scarabaeinae diversity and tribal classification issues -- 2.3 Scarabaeine dung beetle phylogenies -- 2.4 The sister clade to the Scarabaeinae -- 2.5 The origin of the dung beetles -- 2.6 The oldest lineages and their geographic origin -- 2.7 Evolution of activity period -- 2.8 The evolution of feeding habits -- 2.9 Evolution of derived alternative lifestyles -- 2.10 Evolution of nidification: dung manipulation strategies -- 2.11 Evolution of nidification: nesting behaviour and subsocial care -- 2.12 Conclusions -- 2.13 Future work / gaps in knowledge -- 3. Male contest competition and the evolution of weapons (Robert Knell) -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Dung beetle horns as weapons -- 3.3 Functional morphology of horns -- 3.4 Horns as predictors of victory -- 3.5 Are beetle horns simply tools? -- 3.6 The evolution of horns: rollers vs. tunnellers -- 3.7 The evolution of horns: population density -- 3.8 The evolution of horns: sex ratio -- 3.9 Future work -- 4. Sexual selection after mating: the evolutionary consequences of sperm competition and cryptic female choice in onthophagines (Leigh W. Simmons) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Sperm competition theorey -- 4.3 Evolution of ejaculate expenditure in the genus Onthophagus -- 4.4 Evolutionary consequences of variation in ejaculate expenditure -- 4.5 Theoretical models of female choice -- 4.6 Quantitative genetics of ejaculate traits -- 4.7 Empirical evidence for adaptive cryptic female choice in Onthophagus Taurus -- 4.8 Conclusions and future directions -- 5. Olfactory ecology (G. D. Tribe and B. V. Burger) -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Orientation to dung and other resources -- 5.3 Olfactory cues used in mate attraction and mate recognition -- 5.4 Chemical composition of Kheper pheromones -- 5.5 Kairomones -- 5.6 Defensive secretions -- 5.7 Conclusions and future directions -- 6. Explaining phenotypic diversity: The conditional strategy and threshold trait expression (Joseph L. Tomkins and Wade Hazel) -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The environmental threshold model -- 6.3 Applying the threshold model -- 6.4 Future directions -- 7. Evolution and development: Onthophagus beetles and the evolutionary development genetics of innovation, allometry, and plasticity (Armin Moczek) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Evo-devo and eco-devo - A brief introduction -- 7.3 Onthophagus beetles as an emerging model system in evo-devo and eco-devo -- 7.4 The origin and diversification of novel traits -- 7.5 The regulation and evolution of scaling -- 7.6 The development, evolution, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity -- 7.7Conclusion -- 8. The evolution of parental care in the onthophagine dung beetles (John Hunt and Clarissa House) -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Parental care theorey -- 8.3 Testing parental care theorey using onthophagine dung beetles -- 8.4 Conclusions and future directions -- 9. The visual ecology of dung beetles (Marcus Byrne and Marie Dacke) -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Insect eye structure -- 9.3 Eye limitations -- 9.4 Dung beetle vision -- 9.5 Visual ecology of flight activity -- 9.6 Sexual selection and eyes -- 9.7 Ball rolling -- 9.8 Conclusions -- 10. The ecological implications of physiological diversity in dung beetles (Steven L. Chown and C. Jaco Klok) -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2Thermoregulation -- 10.3 Thermal tolerance -- 10.4 Water balance -- 10.5 Gas exchange and metabolic rate -- 10.6 Conclusion and prospectus -- 11. Dung beetle populations: structure and consequences (Tomas Roslin and Heidi Viljanen) -- 11.1Introduction -- 11.2 Study systems -- 11.3 Range size -- 11.4 Habitat and resource selection -- 11.5 Dung beetle movement -- 11.6 The genetic structure of dung beetle populations -- 11.7 Consequences: spatial population structures and responses to habitat loss -- 11.8 Perspectives -- Biological control: ecosystem functions provided by dung beetles (T. James Ridsdill-Smith and Penny B. Edwards) -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Function of dung beetles in ecosystems -- 12.3 Dung beetles in pasture habitats -- 12.4 Seasonal occurrence and abundance of native dung beetles in Australia -- 12.5 Distribution and seasonal occurrence of introduced dung beetles in Australia -- 12.6 Long term studies of establishment and abundance -- 12.7 Competitive exclusion -- 12.8 Optimising the benefits of biological control -- 13. Dung beetles as a candidate study taxon in applied biodiversity conservation research (Elizabeth S. Nichols and Toby A. Gardner) -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Satisfying data needs to inform conservation practice -- 13.3 The role of dung beetles in applied biodiversity research in human-modified landscapes -- 13.4 Dung beetle conservation -- 13.5 Some ways forward -- References -- Index. |
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Lake P. S
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| Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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