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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2003]
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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.