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Résumé :
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This 658-page book is part of a series on annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics. The book is organized into twenty seven individually authored chapters. The first chapter deals with prescriptive evolution to conserve and manage biodiversity. The second chapter deals with the phylogeny and evolution of ants. The third chapter deals with what are species pools and when are they important? The remaining chapters deals with biogeomorphic impacts of invasive species, the evolution of animal domestication, complex ecological interactions in the coffee agroecosystem, the utility of fisher's geometric model in evolutionary genetics, the molecular basis of phenotypic convergence, ecological restoration of streams and rivers: shifting strategies and shifting goals, warmer shorter winters disrupt arctic terrestrial ecosystems, population biology of aging in the wild, ecology and evolution of the african great lakes and their faunas, using ancient DNA to understand evolutionary and ecological processes, resolving conflicts during the evolutionary transition to multicellular life, and speciation in freshwater fishes. Each chapter contains a list of references. The text is written in English and indexed by subject with tables, and figures. Users of this book will include ecologists, climatologists, and biotechnologists.
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