Population Dynamics And Laboratory Ecology

Author : Robert Desharnais
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0120139375

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Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology by Robert Desharnais Pdf

Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology highlights the contributions laboratory studies are making to our understanding of the dynamics of ecological and evolutionary systems. Chapters address the scientific rationale for laboratory ecology, its historical role within the broader discipline, and recent advances in research. The book presents results from a wide range of laboratory systems including insects, mites, plankton, protists, and microbes. A common theme throughout the book is the value of microcosm studies in advancing our knowledge of ecological and evolutionary principles. Each chapter is authored by scientists who are leading experts in their fields. The book addresses fundamental questions that are of interest to biologists whether they work in the laboratory or field or whether they are primarily empiricists or theorists. Details a scientific rationale for laboratory systems in ecological and evolutionary studies Offers a view on historical role of laboratory studies Includes examples of recent research advances in ecology and evolution using laboratory systems, ranging from insects to microbes Integrates mathematics, statistics and experimental studies

Author : David Tilman,Peter Kareiva
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691188362

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Spatial Ecology by David Tilman,Peter Kareiva Pdf

Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. Although the ecological world is unavoidably spatial, there have been few attempts to determine how explicit considerations of space may alter the predictions of ecological models, or what insights it may give into the causes of broad-scale ecological patterns. As this book demonstrates, the spatial structure of a habitat can fundamentally alter both the qualitative and quantitative dynamics and outcomes of ecological processes. Spatial Ecology highlights the importance of space to five topical areas: stability, patterns of diversity, invasions, coexistence, and pattern generation. It illustrates both the diversity of approaches used to study spatial ecology and the underlying similarities of these approaches. Over twenty contributors address issues ranging from the persistence of endangered species, to the maintenance of biodiversity, to the dynamics of hosts and their parasitoids, to disease dynamics, multispecies competition, population genetics, and fundamental processes relevant to all these cases. There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the influence of spatially explicit processes on individual species and on multispecies communities. This book synthesizes these advances, shows the limitations of traditional, non-spatial approaches, and offers a variety of new approaches to spatial ecology that should stimulate ecological research.

Author : Laurence D. Mueller,Amitabh Joshi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691209944

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Stability in Model Populations (MPB-31) by Laurence D. Mueller,Amitabh Joshi Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by such agencies as competition and predation--should grow geometrically. How is order in nature maintained in the face of the seemingly disorderly struggle for existence? In this book, Laurence Mueller and Amitabh Joshi examine current theories of population stability and show how recent laboratory research on model populations--particularly blowflies, Tribolium, and Drosophila--contributes to our understanding of population dynamics and the evolution of stability. The authors review the general theory of population stability and critically analyze techniques for inferring whether a given population is in balance or not. They then show how rigorous empirical research can reveal both the proximal causes of stability (how populations are regulated and maintained at an equilibrium, including the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors) and its ultimate, mostly evolutionary causes. In the process, they describe experimental studies on model systems that address the effects of age-structure, inbreeding, resource levels, and population structure on the stability and persistence of populations. The discussion incorporates the authors' own findings on the evolution of population stability in Drosophila. They go on to relate laboratory work to studies of animals in the wild and to develop a general framework for relating the life history and ecology of a species to its population dynamics. This accessible, finely written illustration of how carefully designed experiments can improve theory will have tremendous value for all ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

Author : Larry L. Rockwood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118947562

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Introduction to Population Ecology by Larry L. Rockwood Pdf

Introduction to Population Ecology, 2ndEdition is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspectsof population ecology. It uses a wide variety of field andlaboratory examples, botanical to zoological, from the tropics tothe tundra, to illustrate the fundamental laws of populationecology. Controversies in population ecology are brought fully upto date in this edition, with many brand new and revised examplesand data. Each chapter provides an overview of how population theory hasdeveloped, followed by descriptions of laboratory and field studiesthat have been inspired by the theory. Topics explored includesingle-species population growth and self-limitation, lifehistories, metapopulations and a wide range of interspecificinteractions including competition, mutualism, parasite-host,predator-prey and plant-herbivore. An additional final chapter, newfor the second edition, considers multi-trophic and other complexinteractions among species. Throughout the book, the mathematics involved is explained with astep-by-step approach, and graphs and other visual aids are used to present a clear illustration of how themodels work. Such features make this an accessible introduction topopulation ecology; essential reading for undergraduate andgraduate students taking courses in population ecology, appliedecology, conservation ecology, and conservation biology, includingthose with little mathematical experience.

Author : Louis W. Botsford,J. Wilson White,Alan Hastings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198758365

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Population Dynamics for Conservation by Louis W. Botsford,J. Wilson White,Alan Hastings Pdf

This book outlines concepts such as population variability, population stability, population viability and persistance, and harvest yield. Also addressed are specific applications to conservation such as managing species at risk, fishery management, and the spatial manageement of marine resources.--Adapted from back cover.

Author : Adam Lomnicki
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691209616

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Population Ecology of Individuals. (MPB-25), Volume 25 by Adam Lomnicki Pdf

A common tendency in the field of population ecology has been to overlook individual differences by treating populations as homogeneous units; conversely, in behavioral ecology the tendency has been to concentrate on how individual behavior is shaped by evolutionary forces, but not on how this behavior affects population dynamics. Adam Lomnicki and others aim to remedy this one-sidedness by showing that the overall dynamical behavior of populations must ultimately be understood in terms of the behavior of individuals. Professor Lomnicki's wide-ranging presentation of this approach includes simple mathematical models aimed at describing both the origin and consequences of individual variation among plants and animals. The author contends that further progress in population ecology will require taking into account individual differences other than sex, age, and taxonomic affiliation--unequal access to resources, for instance. Population ecologists who adopt this viewpoint may discover new answers to classical questions of population ecology. Partly because it uses a variety of examples from many taxonomic groups, this work will appeal not only to population ecologists but to ecologists in general.

Author : Ruth Bernstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0470851481

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Population Ecology by Ruth Bernstein Pdf

This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time. Using simply presented exercises, it teaches the programming and analysing skills students need for creating their own models of population change. In this way, readers can contribute constructively to the conservation of endangered species and the control of pest species. Focus on biology rather than mathematical procedures Introduces new techniques and shortcuts gradually with carefully explained commands Includes an extensive glossary Undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in population ecology, behavioural ecology and conservation will find this an ideal accompaniment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814474207

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Complex Population Dynamics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Russell Lande,Steinar Engen,Bernt-Erik Sæther
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198525257

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Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation by Russell Lande,Steinar Engen,Bernt-Erik Sæther Pdf

1. Demographic and environmental stochasticity -- 2. Extinction dynamics -- 3. Age structure -- 4. Spatial structure -- 5. Population viability analysis -- 6. Sustainable harvesting -- 7. Species diversity -- 8. Community dynamics.

Author : Olin E. Rhodes,Ronald K. Chesser,Michael H. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0222710586

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Population Dynamics in Ecological Space and Time by Olin E. Rhodes,Ronald K. Chesser,Michael H. Smith Pdf

Author : J. M. Cushing
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0121988767

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Chaos in Ecology by J. M. Cushing Pdf

Chaos in Ecology is a convincing demonstration of chaos in a biological population. The book synthesizes an ecologically focused interdisciplinary blend of non-linear dynamics theory, statistics, and experimentation yielding results of uncommon clarity and rigor. Topics include fundamental issues that are of general and widespread importance to population biology and ecology. Detailed descriptions are included of the mathematical, statistical, and experimental steps they used to explore nonlinear dynamics in ecology. Beginning with a brief overview of chaos theory and its implications for ecology. The book continues by deriving and rigorously testing a mathematical model that is closely wedded to biological mechanisms of their research organism. Therefrom were generated a variety of predictions that are fundamental to chaos theory and experiments were designed and analyzed to test those predictions. Discussion of patterns in chaos and how they can be investigated using real data follows and book ends with a discussion of the salient lessons learned from this research program Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780444640734

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Integrated Population Biology and Modeling by Anonim Pdf

Integrated Population Biology and Modeling: Part A offers very complex and precise realities of quantifying modern and traditional methods of understanding populations and population dynamics. Chapters cover emerging topics of note, including Longevity dynamics, Modeling human-environment interactions, Survival Probabilities from 5-Year Cumulative Life Table Survival Ratios (Tx+5/Tx): Some Innovative Methodological Investigations, Cell migration Models, Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer Cells, an Integrated approach for modeling of coastal lagoons: A case for Chilka Lake, India, Population and metapopulation dynamics, Mortality analysis: measures and models, Stationary Population Models, Are there biological and social limits to human longevity?, Probability models in biology, Stochastic Models in Population Biology, and more. Covers emerging topics of note in the subject matter Presents chapters on Longevity dynamics, Modeling human-environment interactions, Survival Probabilities from 5-Year Cumulative Life Table Survival Ratios (Tx+5/Tx), and more

Author : Alan Hastings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822021120647

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Population Biology by Alan Hastings Pdf

Population biology has been investigated quantitatively for many decades, resulting in a rich body of scientific literature. Ecologists often avoid this literature, put off by its apparently formidable mathematics. This textbook provides an introduction to the biology and ecology of populations by emphasizing the roles of simple mathematical models in explaining the growth and behavior of populations. The author only assumes acquaintance with elementary calculus, and provides tutorial explanations where needed to develop mathematical concepts. Examples, problems, extensive marginal notes and numerous graphs enhance the book's value to students in classes ranging from population biology and population ecology to mathematical biology and mathematical ecology. The book will also be useful as a supplement to introductory courses in ecology.

Author : Lori M. Hunter
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0833043684

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The Environmental Implications of Population Dynamics by Lori M. Hunter Pdf

This report discusses the relationship between population and environmental change, the forces that mediate this relationship, and how population dynamics specifically affect climate change and land-use change.

Author : T. Royama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401129169

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Analytical Population Dynamics by T. Royama Pdf

A knowledge of animal population dynamics is essential for the proper management of natural resources and the environment. This book, now available in paperback, develops basic concepts and a rigorous methodology for the analysis of animal population dynamics to identify the underlying mechanisms.