Consumer-Resource Dynamics (MPB-36) /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2003]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource: illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781400847259 |