Browsing by Author "Sadedin, Suzanne"

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    • Complexity and Ecology 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2005-12)
      Covering an area of more than 6 million square kilometres, the Amazon Basin dominates northern Brazil and forms a large part of the South American continent. The richness of its biodiversity, and the hostility of its natural ...

    • Complexity in landscapes 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2005-12)
      In the previous chapter, we saw that interactions between organisms lead to complexity in ecosystems. Interactions between organisms and their environment also contribute. Soil formation, for instance, involves a combination ...

    • Digital ecology 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2005-12)
      Late in the 1990s, Nick Klomp was studying short-tailed shearwaters, one of the most common bird species along Australia 's eastern coastline. During the breeding season, the shearwaters build their nests on off-shore ...

    • Genetics and adaptation in landscapes 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2006)
      So far in this book, we have looked at populations as if all the individuals comprising them were interchangeable. In reality, this is not so. Walk through an unmown meadow and you will see that different plants of the ...

    • Living with the neighbors 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2005-12)
      In the year 1859, Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits into the bush near his farm in the southern Australian colony of Victoria. His aim was to have a regular supply of familiar game to hunt. By the end of the 19th century, ...

    • Populations in landscapes 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2005-12)
      Halfway between Sweden and Finland, and separating the Baltic Sea from the Gulf of Bothnia, lies a vast group of islands known as the Åland archipelago. Consisting of more than 6,500 islands, Åland is home to a species of ...

    • The imbalance of nature 

      Green, David G.; Klomp, Nicholas; Rimmington, Glyn M.; Sadedin, Suzanne (Springer Netherlands, 2005-12)
      It is a quiet spring evening by a lake in eastern Canada. The sun is disappearing behind the distant beech trees. The sound of Loons singing drifts across the water. There is a perfect scene of peace and tranquillity. With ...