Population Dynamics in Ecological Space and Time

Abstract

Chapters drawn from an international symposium held at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in the spring of 1993. Spatiotemporal approaches in ecology and genetics: the road less traveled / Olin E. Rhodes, Jr. and Eugene P. Odum -- Metapopulation ecology / Ilkka Hanski -- Sources and sinks: empirical evidence and population consequences / H. Ronald Pulliam -- Multistage life cycles / Henry M. Wilbur -- Overlapping generations: the storage effect and the maintenance of biotic diversity / Nelson G. Hairston, Jr., Stephen Ellner, and Colleen M. Kearns -- Sources of variation in migratory movements of animal populations: statistical inference and a selective review of empirical results for birds / James D. Nichols -- Consequences of dispersal in plants / James L. Hamrick and John D. Nason -- Gene conservation / Ronald K. Chesser, Olin E. Rhodes, Jr., and Michael H. Smith -- Spatial and temporal aspects of bacterial population genetics / J. Vaun McArthur -- Toward the incorporation of spatiotemporal dynamics into ecotoxicology / Raymond J. O'Connor -- Landscape processes and their significance to biodiversity conservation / Larry D. Harris, Thomas S. Hoctor, and Sarah E. Gergel -- Science and the singular universe / Ronald K. Chesser.