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Population Ecology : First Principles (Second Edition).
Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology has advanced dramatically, growing in mathematical and theoretical sophistication. H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; ONE Elementary Population Dynamics; Density Independence: The Exponential Equation; Density Dependence; The Logistic Equation; The Yield-Density Relationship; Density Dependence and Mortality: Thinning Laws; Density Dependence in Discrete Time Models; TWO Projection Matrices: Structured Models; Elementary Age-Structured Population Projection Matrices; Non-Age Structure: Stage Projection Matrices; Eigenvectors, Reproductive Value, Sensitivity, and Elasticity; Density Dependence in Structured Populations.
- Density Dependence in a Simple Age-Structured ModelDensity Dependence in Size-Distributed Populations; Density Dependence in a Stage-Structured Model; Appendix: Basic Matrix Manipulations; Matrix Multiplication; Matrix Addition and Subtraction; The Identity Matrix; The Determinant of a Matrix; THREE Applications of Simple Population Models; Life History Analysis; Investment in Survivorship versus Reproduction: The r-K Continuum; The Cost of Reproduction; Optimal Reproductive Schedules; Applications of Population Projection Matrices; The Dall's Mountain Sheep: A Static Life Table.
- Palo de Mayo: A Dynamic Life TablePopulation Viability Analysis; Demography of Invasive and Native Plant Populations; FOUR A Closer Look at the "Dynamics" in Population Dynamics; Intuitive Ideas of Equilibrium and Stability; Eigenvalues: A Key Concept in Dynamic Analysis; Basic Concepts of Equilibrium and Stability in One-Dimensional Maps; The One-Dimensional Map; Stability and Equilibrium in the Logistic Map; Basins of Attraction in the Logistic Map; Structural Stability; Bifurcation Diagrams; Concluding Remarks; FIVE Patterns and Dynamics in Space; The Poisson Distribution.
- Point Pattern Analysis and the Question of ScaleMechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation: Principles of Reaction/Diffusion; Mechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation: Biological Causes; Metapopulations; Assumptions of Metapopulation Models; The Rescue Effect and Propagule Rain; Appendix: Data for Exercises 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4; SIX Predator-Prey (Consumer-Resource) Interactions; Predator-Prey Interactions: First Principles; Density Dependence; Functional Response; Functional Response and Density Dependence Together; Paradoxes in Applications of Predator-Prey Theory.
- Predator-Prey Dynamics: A Graphical ApproachPredator-Prey Interactions in Discrete Time; SEVEN Disease Ecology; Direct Disease Transmission; Indirect Transmission; EIGHT Competition; Competition: First Principles; Isocline Analysis of the Lotka-Volterra Competition Equations; Niches and Competitive Coexistence and Exclusion; The Competitive Production Principle: Applications of Competition Theory to Agriculture; Resource Competition; NINE Facilitation and Mutualism; TEN What This Book Was About; Glossary; References; Index.