The growing need for baseline data against which efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity
loss can be judged highlights the importance of long-term datasets, some of which are as …

Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is related to many
biological traits, including abundance. The relationship between abundance and body size …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

The adaptive cycle and its extension to panarchy (nested adaptive cycles) has been a useful
metaphor and conceptual model for understanding long-term dynamics of change in …

Extreme climatic events are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude, but their
ecological impacts are poorly understood. Such events are large, infrequent, stochastic …

Biotic responses to global change include directional shifts in organismal traits. Body size,
an integrative trait that determines demographic rates and ecosystem functions, is thought to …

Energetic constraints are fundamental to ecology and evolution, and empirical relationships
between species richness and estimates of available energy (ie resources) have led some …

Recent models of community assembly, structure, and dynamics have incorporated, to
varying degrees, three mechanistic processes: resource limitation and interspecific …

Arid systems are characterized by spatiotemporal variability in resources and, as such, make
ideal systems for examining the role of resource limitation in the long-term dynamics of …

Rooted in the conceptual revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, contemporary research on the
ecology of desert small mammals has progressed markedly in recent decades. Areas of …