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Consumer-resource dynamics /

Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murdoch, William W.
Otros Autores: Briggs, Cheryl J., 1963-, Nisbet, R. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2003]
Colección:Monographs in population biology ; 36.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions. Thro.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 462 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-449) and index.
ISBN:9781400847259
1400847257