Animals' influence on the landscape and ecological importance : natives, newcomers, homecomers / Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier.

Author/creator Holtmeier, Friedrich-Karl author.
Format Electronic
PublicationDordrecht : Springer, [2014]
Copyright Date©2015
Description1 online resource (xxxi, 522 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Landscape ecology.
Animal-plant relationships.
Electronic books.

Contents Preface; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Photos; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Animal's Functional Role in the Landscape; 2.1 Landscape: Habitat and System of Interacting Abiotic and Biotic Factors; 2.1.1 The Role of Animals in Matter and Energy Fluxes Within Ecosystems; 2.1.2 The Role of Animals in Matte and Energy Fluxes Between Ecosystems; 2.1.3 Animals as a Cause of Changes in Habitat Quality; 2.2 The Role of Animal Population Density; 2.2.1 Habitat Conditions and 'Self-Regulation' as Density Influencing Factors.
Contents 2.2.2 Influence of Predator-Prey Relationship on Population Density; 2.3 Effects of Herbivores: The Role of Food Requirement, Consumption and Supply; 2.3.1 Spatial and Temporal Influences of Foraging Behavior; 2.3.1.1 Influence of the Rainy Seasons; 2.3.1.2 Influence of the Thermal Seasons; 2.3.2 Development and Effects of Plant Defensive Substances; 2.3.3 Feeding Specialists and Generalists: Their Influence on Species Diversity; 2.4 Effects of Cyclic Mass-Outbreaks and Other Mass Occurrences of Animals; 2.4.1 Autumnal Moth and Winter Moth in Subarctic Birch Forests.
Contents 2.4.2 The Larch bud Moth in Central-Alpine Swiss Stone Pine-Larch Forests; 2.4.3 Noxious Forest Insects in North American Coniferous Forests; 2.4.3.1 Western Spruce Budworm; 2.4.3.2 Bark Beetles; 2.4.3.2.1 Mountain Pine Beetle; 2.4.3.2.2 Spruce Beetle; 2.4.3.2.3 Eastern Larch Beetle; 2.4.4 African Red-Billed Weaver Bird; 2.5 Seed Dispersal (Zoochory); 2.5.1 Ants (Myrmecochory); 2.5.2 Mammals; 2.5.3 Birds; 2.5.3.1 Jays and Nutcrackers; 2.5.3.2 Other Birds; 2.6 Influences of Animals on Soil, Land Surface and Other Site Characteristics; 2.6.1 Effects of Burrowing, Digging and Trampling.
Contents 2.6.1.1 Bioturbation (Soil Mixing, Aeration, Translocation of Soil Material)2.6.1.2 Geomorphic Effects; 2.6.1.2.1 Mammals; 2.6.1.2.2 Seabirds (and Other Birds); 2.6.2 Influences of Zoogenic Change of Soils on Vegetation; 2.6.2.1 Rodents; 2.6.2.2 Wild Boars; 2.6.2.3 Wombats; References; Chapter 3: Selected Landscapes Under the Influence of Wild Herbivorous Mammals; 3.1 African Savannas; 3.1.1 Large Ungulate Herds; 3.1.2 Elephants and Other Pachyderms; 3.1.3 The Influence of Poaching; 3.2 Grasslands Outside the Tropics; 3.2.1 Eurasian Steppes; 3.2.2 North American Prairies; 3.3 Tundra.
Contents 3.3.1 Muskox; 3.3.2 Reindeer and Caribou; 3.4 Woodlands; 3.4.1 Central and Western Europe; 3.4.2 Northern Europe; 3.4.3 North America; 3.4.4 Large Herbivores and the Woodland Hypothesis; References; Chapter 4: Keystone Species; 4.1 The Term 'Keystone Species'; 4.2 Three Selected Examples of Keystone Species' Influence on the Landscape; 4.2.1 Termites; 4.2.2 Beavers; 4.2.3 Kangaroo Rats; References; Chapter 5: Introductions and Re-introductions of Animals; 5.1 Newcomers; 5.1.1 Introduction of Norwegian Reindeer to South Georgia and Other Subantarctic Islands.
Abstract In its first English-language edition, this book introduces the many-faceted interactions of animal populations with their habitats. From soil fauna, ants and termites to small and large herbivores, burrowing mammals and birds, the author presents a comprehensive analysis of animals and ecosystems that is as broad and varied as all nature. Chapter 2 addresses the functional role of animals in landscape ecosystems, emphasizing fluxes of energy and matter within and between ecosystems, and the effects of animals on qualitative and structural habitat change.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 4, 2014).
Issued in other formPrint version: Holtmeier, Friedrich-Karl. Animals' Influence on the Landscape and Ecological Importance : Natives, Newcomers, Homecomers. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, ©2014 9789401792936
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9789401792943 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9401792941 (electronic bk.)
Standard identifier# 10.1007/978-94-017-9294-3
Stock numbercom.springer.onix.9789401792943 Springer Nature

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