Patterns in Nature: The Analysis of Species Co-Occurrences

by Stuart L. Pimm and James G. Sanderson

What species occur where, and why, and why some places harbor more species than others are basic questions for ecologists. Some species simply live in different places: fish live underwater; birds do not. Adaptations follow: most fish have gills; birds have lungs. But as Patterns in Nature reveals, not all patterns are so trivial.

Travel from island to island and the species change. Travel along any gradient--up a mountain, from forest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022629272X
• ISBN13: 9780226292724
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"