Unsolved problems in ecology
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Ecological Scaling in Space and Time: A New Tool in Plain Sight? -- How Will Organisms Respond to Complex, Novel Environments? -- Variance-Explicit Ecology: A Call for Holistic Study of the Consequences of Variability at Multiple Scales -- Why Does Intra-Genotypic Variance Persist? -- Population Dynamics of Species with Complex Life Cycles -- What Determines Population Density? -- Neglected Problems in Ecology: Interdependence and Mutualism -- Ecology "through the Looking Glass": What Might Be the Ecological Consequences of Stopping Mutation? -- Ecology and Evolution Is Hindered by the Lack of Individual-Based Data -- Do Temperate and Tropical Birds Have Different Mating Systems? -- Leaf Structure and Function -- The Dimensions of Species Coexistence -- Evolution, Speciation, and the Persistence Paradox -- What Is the Species Richness Distribution? -- Two Sides of the Same Coin: High Non-Neutral Diversity and High-Dimensional Trait Space in Pathogen Populations and Ecological Communities -- What Regulates Growth across Levels of Organization? -- The Ecosystem: Superorganism, or Collection of Individuals? -- Untangling Food Webs -- What Determines the Abundance of Lianas and Vines? -- The World Beneath Us: Making Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Central to Environmental Policy -- Ecology and Medicines -- Six Wedges to Curing Disease -- Collective Cooperation: From Ecological Communities to Global Governance and Back -- Keeping the Faith: The Case for Very-Large Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas -- How Does Biodiversity Relate to Ecosystem Functioning in Natural Ecosystems? -- A Science Business Model for Answering Important Questions -- Going Big -- Index