Animal ecology, by Charles Elton; with an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.

Elton, Charles

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“…Instead, they exhibit site-fidelity and establish areas where they undertake routine activities such as feeding, resting and defending (Elton, 1927;Burt, 1943;Stamps, 1995;Powell, 2000). Much of the understanding of home range use has come from terrestrial studies, which provide great insight into the way animals respond to their environment.…”

Section: Home Range Movementsmentioning

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Movements of Marine Fish and Decapod Crustaceans: Process, Theory and Application

Pittman

McAlpine

2003

Advances in Marine Biology

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Section: Home Range Movementsmentioning

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Movements of Marine Fish and Decapod Crustaceans: Process, Theory and Application

Pittman

McAlpine

2003

Advances in Marine Biology

222

178

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“…The ecological niche concept has also evolved considerably since it was coined by Grinnell (45) -yes, the same Grinnell as above-, endorsed by Elton (26) and formally defined by Hutchinson (54) as a hypervolume, a multi-dimensional space of resources (e.g. light, nutrients, structure) leading to standard niche theory that explains species coexistence as a result of resource partitioning along many niche axes (one niche, one species).…”

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Neutral Community Theory: How Stochasticity and Dispersal-Limitation Can Explain Species Coexistence

Etienne¹,

Alonso

2006

J Stat Phys

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Neutral community theory explains biodiversity, i.e. the coexistence of several species, as the result of a stochastic balance between immigration and extinction on a local level, and between speciation and extinction on a regional level. The most popular model, presented by Hubbell in 2001, has seen many analytical developments in recent years, which can be used in model analysis, model testing and model comparison. We review these developments here, and present alternative derivations and shine previously unnoticed lights on them.

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“…Yet, this idea was held by many early ecologists and popular amongst a large division of conservationists who favored isolated nature sanctuaries as the main means of conservation (Cooper, 2007, p. 46). Like Elton, Nicholson thought instead that the development of local animal populations was always determined by environmental factors of their territory (Elton, 1927;see Birkhead, 2011, p. 235). The conclusion CONSERVATION COMPROMISES that managing nature by manipulating external environmental factors was not alone possible, but necessary to guarantee a balanced system was crucial to Nicholson's ecological and conservationist writings and his plans for IBP/CT.…”

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Conservation Compromises: The MAB and the Legacy of the International Biological Program, 1964–1974

Schleper

2016

J Hist Biol

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Abstract. This article looks at the International Biological Program (IBP) as the predecessor of UNESCO's well-known and highly successful Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). It argues that international conservation efforts of the 1970s, such as the MAB, must in fact be understood as a compound of two opposing attempts to reform international conservation in the 1960s. The scientific framework of the MAB has its origins in disputes between high-level conservationists affiliated with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) about what the IBP meant for the future of conservation. Their respective visions entailed different ecological philosophies as much as diverging sets of political ideologies regarding the global implementation of conservation. Within the IBP's Conservation Section, one group propagated a universal systems approach to conservation with a centralized, technocratic management of nature and society by an elite group of independent scientific experts. Within IUCN, a second group based their notion of environmental expert roles on a more descriptive and local ecology of resource mapping as practiced by UNESCO. When the IBP came to an end in 1974, both groups' ecological philosophies played into the scientific framework underlying the MAB's World Network or Biosphere Reserves. The article argues that it is impossible to understand the course of conservation within the MAB without studying the dynamics and discourses between the two underlying expert groups and their respective visions for reforming conservation.

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Animal ecology, by Charles Elton; with an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.

Abstract: for allowing me to use photographs, all taken in rather out-of-the-way parts of the world (Spitsbergen, Egyptian desert, and Burma, respectively).

Cited by 536 publications

References 7 publications

Movements of Marine Fish and Decapod Crustaceans: Process, Theory and Application

Movements of Marine Fish and Decapod Crustaceans: Process, Theory and Application

Neutral Community Theory: How Stochasticity and Dispersal-Limitation Can Explain Species Coexistence

Conservation Compromises: The MAB and the Legacy of the International Biological Program, 1964–1974

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