Ecology “through the Looking Glass”: What Might Be the Ecological Consequences of Stopping Mutation?

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. List of Contributors xvii
5. PART I. Populations, Variability, and Scaling
6. Ecological Scaling in Space and Time: A New Tool in Plain Sight? 1
7. How Will Organisms Respond to Complex, Novel Environments? 16
8. Variance-Explicit Ecology: A Call for Holistic Study of the Consequences of Variability at Multiple Scales 25
9. Why Does Intra-Genotypic Variance Persist? 43
10. Population Dynamics of Species with Complex Life Cycles 55
11. What Determines Population Density? 67
12. PART II. Population Biology and the Ecology of Individuals
13. Neglected Problems in Ecology: Interdependence and Mutualism 79
14. Ecology “through the Looking Glass”: What Might Be the Ecological Consequences of Stopping Mutation? 92
15. Ecology and Evolution Is Hindered by the Lack of Individual-Based Data 107
16. Do Temperate and Tropical Birds Have Different Mating Systems? 115
17. Leaf Structure and Function 124
18. PART III. Coexistence
19. The Dimensions of Species Coexistence 145
20. Evolution, Speciation, and the Persistence Paradox 160
21. What Is the Species Richness Distribution? 177
22. Two Sides of the Same Coin: High Non-Neutral Diversity and High-Dimensional Trait Space in Pathogen Populations and Ecological Communities 189
23. PART IV. Ecological Communities and Ecosystems
24. What Regulates Growth across Levels of Organization? 203
25. The Ecosystem: Superorganism, or Collection of Individuals? 218
26. Untangling Food Webs 225
27. What Determines the Abundance of Lianas and Vines? 239
28. The World Beneath Us: Making Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Central to Environmental Policy 265
29. PART V. Ecology and Health
30. Ecology and Medicines 279
31. Six Wedges to Curing Disease 288
32. PART VI. Conservation Biology and Natural Resource Management
33. Collective Cooperation: From Ecological Communities to Global Governance and Back 311
34. Keeping the Faith: The Case for Very-Large Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas 318
35. How Does Biodiversity Relate to Ecosystem Functioning in Natural Ecosystems? 338
36. PART VII. Final Thoughts
37. A Science Business Model for Answering Important Questions 357
38. Going Big 374
39. Index 381