Complex population dynamics: a theoretical/empirical synthesis
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Main Author: Turchin, Peter 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2003
Series:Monographs in population biology 35
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Item Description:pt. I. - Theory -- - 1 - Introduction -- - 1.1 - At the Sources -- - 1.2 - General Philosophy of the Approach -- - 2 - Population Dynamics from First Principles -- - 2.1 - Introduction -- - 2.2 - Exponential Growth -- - 2.3 - Self-Limitation -- - 2.4 - Consumer-Resource Oscillations -- - 2.5 - Process Order -- - 2.6 - Synthesis -- - 3 - Single-Species Populations -- - 3.1 - Models without Population Structure -- - 3.2 - Exogenous Drivers -- - 3.3 - Age- and Stage-Structured Models -- - 3.4 - Second-Order Models -- - 3.5 - Synthesis -- - 4 - Trophic Interactions -- - 4.1 - Responses to Predators to Fluctuations in Prey Density -- - 4.2 - Continuous-Time Models -- - 4.3 - Discrete-Time Models: Parasitoids -- - 4.4 - Grazing Systems -- - 4.5 - Pathogens and Parasites
Why do organisms become extremely abundant one year and then seem to disappear a few years later? Why do population outbreaks in particular species happen more or less regularly in certain locations, but only irregularly (or never at all) in other locations? Complex population dynamics have fascinated biologists for decades. By bringing together mathematical models, statistical analyses, and field experiments, this book offers a comprehensive new synthesis of the theory of population oscillations
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (471 pages)
ISBN:1400847281
9781400847280

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