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Résumé :
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This 518-page book is part of a series on Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, volume 42. The book is divided into 22 individually authored chapters. The first chapter deals with native pollinators in anthropogenic habitats. The second chapter deals with microbially mediated plant functional traits. The third chapter deals with evolution in the genus Homo. Remaining chapters include Ehrlich and Raven revisited: mechanisms underlying codiversification of plants and enemies, an evolutionary perspective on self-organized division of labor in social insects, evolution of Anopheles gambiae in relation to humans and malaria, mechanisms of plant invasions of North America and European grasslands, physiological correlates of geographic range in animals, ecological lessons from free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiments, phylogenetic insights on evolutionary novelties in lizards, the patterns and causes of variation in plant nucleotide substitution rates, long-term ecological records and their relevance to climate change, the behavioral ecology of nutrient foraging by plants, climate relicts: past, present, future, and rapid evolutionary change and the coexistence of species. The book highlights a list of contributors. Each chapter contains a list of references. The text is written in English. Users of this book will include ecologists, evolutionists, and taxonomists.
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