Imperial College London
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Samraat Pawar

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Theoretical Ecology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2213s.pawar CV

 
 
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2.4KennedySilwood Park

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Publications

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BibTex format

@inbook{Gibert:2015:10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.03.001,
author = {Gibert, JP and Dell, AI and DeLong, JP and Pawar, S},
doi = {10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.03.001},
pages = {1--17},
publisher = {Elsevier},
title = {Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.03.001},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - Ecology has traditionally focused on species diversity as a way of characterizing the health of an ecosystem. In recent years, however, the focus has increasingly shifted towards trait diversity both within and across species. As we increasingly recognize that ecological and evolutionary timescales may not be all that different, understanding the ecological effects of trait variation becomes paramount. Trait variation is thus the keystone to our understanding of how evolutionary processes may affect ecological dynamics as they unfold, and how these may in turn alter evolutionary trajectories. However, a multi-level understanding of how trait variation scales up from individuals to whole communities or ecosystems is still a work in progress. The chapters in this volume explore how functional trait diversity affects ecological processes across levels of biological organization. This chapter aims at binding the messages of the different contributions and considers how they advance our understanding of how trait variation can be scaled up to understand the interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics from individuals to ecosystems.
AU  - Gibert,JP
AU  - Dell,AI
AU  - DeLong,JP
AU  - Pawar,S
DO  - 10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.03.001
EP  - 17
PB  - Elsevier
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 9780124200029
SP  - 1
TI  - Scaling-up Trait Variation from Individuals to Ecosystems
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.03.001
UR  - http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0065250415000100
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/25982
ER  -
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