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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Population Dynamics: Observations and Basic Concepts
  • 3. Simple Models in Continuous Time
  • 4. Simple Models in Discrete Time
  • 5. An Introduction to Models with Stage Structure
  • 6. Dynamical Effects of Parasitoid Lifestyles
  • 7. State-Dependent Decisions
  • 8. Competition between Consumer Species
  • 9. Implications for Biological Control
  • 10. Dynamical Effects of Spatial Processes
  • 11. Synthesis and Integration across Systems
  • 12. Concluding Remarks.