Springer - Comparative Ecology Of Microorganisms And Macroorganisms, 2nd Edition (2017 EN)

Author: John H. Andrews
Full Title: Comparative Ecology Of Microorganisms And Macroorganisms, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 2017 edition (June 27, 2017)
Year: 2017
ISBN-13: 9781493968978 (978-1-4939-6897-8), 9781493968954 (978-1-4939-6895-4)
ISBN-10: 1493968971, 1493968955
Pages: 349
Language: English
Genre: Microbial Ecology
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 80.24 €


This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual synthesis of microbial ecology with plant and animal ecology. Drawing on examples from the biology of microorganisms and macroorganisms, this textbook provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to ecology. The focus is the individual organism and comparisons are made along six axes: genetic variation, nutritional mode, size, growth, life cycle, and influence of the environment. When it was published in 1991, the first edition of Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and Macroorganisms was unique in its attempt to clearly compare fundamental ecology across the gamut of size. The explosion of molecular biology and the application of its techniques to microbiology and organismal biology have particularly demonstrated the need for interdisciplinary understanding. This updated and expanded edition remains unique. It treats the same topics at greater depth and includes an exhaustive compilation of both the most recent relevant literature in microbial ecology and plant/animal ecology, as well as the early research papers that shaped the concepts and theories discussed. Among the completely updated topics in the book are phylogenetic systematics, search algorithms and optimal foraging theory, comparative metabolism, the origins of life and evolution of multicellularity, and the evolution of life cycles.

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