Discovery Evolutionary Ecology

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Contenidos del Libro:

1. Where two fields meet
2. Evolutionary cover-stories
3. Brave new worlds
4. Traits, invariants, and theories of everything
5. Sons, daughters, and distorters
6. Voyagers, residents, and sleepers
7. Doing adaptive things
8. Evolution and numbers
9. A world of specialists
10. The good, the bad, and the commensal
11. Evolving together
12. Birth of species
13. Death of species
14. Big evolution
15. Big ecology
16. Combining in diversity

Actualización: 01/09/2012

Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications

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Contenidos del Libro:
1.- Introduction
2.- How populations cohere: five rules for cooperation
3.- Single-species dynamics
4.- Metapopulations and their spatial dynamics
5.- Predator–prey interactions
6.- Plant population dynamics
7.- Interspecific competition and multispecies coexistence
8.- Diversity and stability in ecological communities
9.- Communities: patterns
10.- Dynamics of infectious disease
11.- Fisheries
12.- A doubly Green Revolution: ecology and food production
13.- Conservation biology: unsolved problems and their policy implications
14.- Climate change and conservation biology
15.- Unanswered questions and why they matter

Actualización: 01/09/2012

Understanding Molecular Simulation: From Algorithms to Applications

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Contenidos del Libro:

1.- Introducción

Part I: Basics

2.- Statistical Mechanics

3.- Monte Carlo Simulations

4.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Part II: Ensambles

5.- Monte Carlo Simulations in Various Ensambles

6.- Molecular Dynamics in Various Ensambles

Part III: Free Energies and Phase Equilibria

7.-  Free Energy Calculations

8.- The Gibbs Ensamble

9.- Other Methods to Study Coexistence

10.- Free Energies of Solids

11.- Free Energy of Chain Molecules

Part IV: Advanced Techniques

12.- Long-Range Interactions

13.- Biased Monte Carlo Schemes

14.- Accelerating Monte Carlo Sampling

15.- Tackling Time-Scale Problems

16.- Rare Events

17.- Dissipative Particle Dynamics

Part V: Appendices

A.- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian

B.- Non-Hamiltonian Dynamics

C.- Linear Response Theory

D.- Statistical Errors

E.- Integration Schemes

F.- Saving CPU Time

G.- Reference States

H.- Statistical Mechanics of the Gibbs "Ensamble"

I.- Overlapping Distribution for Polymers

J.- Some General Purpose Algorithms

K.- Small Research Projects

L.- Hints for Programming

Actualización: 01/09/2012

Microbial Ecology of the Oceans

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Contenido del Libro:

1.- Introduction and Overview

2.- Understanding Roles of Microbes in Marine Pelagic Food Webs: A Brief History

3.- Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure and its Patterns

4.- Genomics and Metagenomics of Marine Prokaryotes

5.- Photoheterotrophic Marine Prokaryotes

6.- Ecology and Diversity of Picoeukaryotes

7.- Organic Matter–Bacteria Interactions in Seawater

8.- Physiological Structure and Single-cell Activity in Marine Bacterioplankton

9.- Heterotrophic Bacterial Respiration

10.- Resource Control of Bacterial Dynamics in the Sea

11.- Protistan Grazing on Marine Bacterioplankton

12.- Marine Viruses: Community Dynamics, Diversity and Impact on Microbial Processes

13.- Molecular Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Fixation in the Marine Environment

14.- Nitrogen Cycling in Sediments

Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach

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Contenidos del Libro:

Sección 1: Ecology of Individual Insects

Sección 2: Population Ecology

Sección 3: Community Ecology

Sección 4: Ecosystem Level

Sección 5: Synthesis.

Un hermoso libro que hace rato quería subir, pero badongo estaba en reparación, razón por la cual no había subido nada.

Bueno, como les decía un muy lindo libro, muy completo, con esquemas y fotografías fullcolor.

Saludos a todos.

Actualización: 01/09/2012