Time in Ecology: A Theoretical Framework

by Eric Post

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production.

Post uses insights from phenology--the study of the timing of life-cycle events--to present a theoretical framework of time in ecology that casts long-standing observations in the field in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691163863
• ISBN13: 9780691163864
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"