Eric Post is professor of climate change ecology and fellow of the John Muir Institute at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Ecology of Climate Change: The Importance of Biotic Interactions (Princeton) and the coeditor of Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate.
“Every once in a while, someone comes along and changes how we
think by revealing something that has been hidden in plain sight.
Using an engaging narrative, Eric Post has done just that. His new
concept of an ecological space-time continuum will fundamentally
enhance our ability to make sense of the contingency in species
life-history strategies and associated ecological functioning that
we see in nature.”—Oswald J. Schmitz, author of The New Ecology:
Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene
“Eric Post poses the view that time is a resource, and that
reframing our thinking in this way is essential to understanding
how evolution and ecology influence the varied responses of species
to environmental changes. Join him on this journey of exploration
and discover the important role that time plays in shaping the
interactions of species with the world around them.”—Heidi
Steltzer, Fort Lewis College
“A gem of a book! Post presents compelling theory and credible,
concrete examples that demonstrate the ecological role of time as a
limiting resource. This work will undoubtedly shape the future of
phenological research for years to come.”—Andrew Richardson,
Northern Arizona University
“Global climate trends are changing the well understood abiotic
phenological triggers such as photoperiod, thermal limits, and
seasonal rainfall. In this provocative book, Post adds an
additional variable, time, in a novel way to interpret observed
variations in life history responses of plants and animals. His
exploration of the added influence of timing of life history stages
is compelling and challenging.”—Steven W. Running, University of
Montana
“Post argues that time is a resource used by organisms to
perpetuate their genes. Changes in the use of the time-space
continuum will determine the response of species and communities to
rapid and dramatic changes in nature wrought by humans. This book
offers a provocative new way to look at how and why species change
their use of time and space.”—William H. Schlesinger, president
emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
“Post’s book makes a significant contribution both as a compendium
of some of his long-term data and a presentation of some novel
perspectives on phenology.”—David William Inouye, coauthor of
Techniques for Pollination Biologists
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