Overview
- Editors:
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Herbert H. T. Prins
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Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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Frank Langevelde
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Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Coherent set of chapters dealing with resource ecology (ideal for lecturers developing a new course on resource ecology)
- Every chapter has testable hypotheses for further research (ideal for students, especially PhD students looking for good subjects for their theses)
- Ample attention for the emerging issue in ecology of ‘scale’
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Table of contents (22 papers)
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- Frank Van Langevelde, Herbert H. T. Prins
Pages 1-6
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- Derek W. Bailey, Frederick D. Provenza
Pages 7-28
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- Sipke E. Van Wieren, Michael Drescher, Willem F. De Boer
Pages 29-31
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- Alfred Stein, Nicholas Georgiadis
Pages 33-51
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- Herbert H. T. Prins, Sipke E. Van Wieren, Arend M. H. Brunsting
Pages 53-56
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- Andrew K. Skidmore, Jelle G. Ferwerda
Pages 57-77
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- Herbert H. T. Prins, Willem. F. De Boer, Frank Van Langevelde
Pages 79-80
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- Michael Drescher, Herbert H. T. Prins, Arend M. H. Brunsting
Pages 101-103
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- Ignas M. A. HeitkÖnig, Michael Drescher, Willem F. De Boer
Pages 125-127
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- Herbert H. T. Prins, Frank Van Langevelde
Pages 129-155
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- Willem F. De Boer, Arend M. H. Brunsting
Pages 183-185
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- Randall B. Boone, Shauna B. Burnsilver, Jeffrey S. Worden, Kathleen A. Galvin, N. Thompson Hobbs
Pages 187-206
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- Willem F. De Boer, Thomas A. Groen, Ignas M. A. HeitkÖnig, Koen Kramer
Pages 207-210
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- Paul Scholte, Joost Brouwer
Pages 211-232
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- Herbert H. T. Prins, Arend M. H. Brunsting, Frank Van Langevelde
Pages 233-236
About this book
This book focuses on ‘resource ecology’, which we defined as ‘the ecology of trophic interactions between consumers and their resources’. In our endeavour to shape the discipline of ‘resource ecology’ further, we invited some world-class scientists to think with us. We thus organised a symposium where we made sure that we paid attention to the original Greek meaning of the word: we discussed, ate and drank together and, for health reasons, made sure that we hade enough time for strolling and bicycling along the banks of the River Rhine. We even climbed a beautiful mediaeval church tower dedicated to Saint Cunera dating back to the year that Columbus sailed for America. In ecology, spatial ecology is an up-and-coming domain of science. It addresses the effects of space and scale on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure and dynamics of multi-species assemblages. More than a few recent studies demonstrate the significance of taking into account the spatial structure of resources on the population dynamics and assemblage structure of consumers. We believe that bringing together scientists specialised in foraging theory with those who know much about spatial ecology can create a new context from which new theory will emerge. Every chapter was written on invitation. We as editors had outlined what we had in mind and sent that outline to the selected authors.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The book presents a very readable account of the current state of play across the broad range of herbivore resource ecology: diet selection and intake at local, patch and landscape scales. … I would certainly recommend this book to researchers, undergraduate and graduate reading groups, because the contents provide plenty of food for thought and debate. Conveniently, the chapters can be viewed individually at the website.” (Andrew Illius, African Journal of Range & Forage Science, Vol. 27 (1), 2010)
