Analytical Population DynamicsIntegrating the approaches of the practical and theoretical ecologist, this work aims to establish a methodology of the analysis of biological populations. In an attempt to modernize the study of the dynamics of natural populations, it concentrates on the practical use of simulation and of population dynamic models, particularly the tool of stochastic difference equations. It covers a range of biological examples, including great tits, titmics, Canada lynx, spruce budworm and laboratory populations. |
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a₁ a₂ adults analysis autocorrelation average azuki bean bean weevil breeding budworm density budworm population Callosobruchus chinensis Choristoneura fumiferana coefficient compared competition conditional reproduction curves correlogram cyclic data points defoliation density-dependent structure density-independent factors dependence discrete experiment E/M ratio ecological eggs equilibrium point estimated females Figure fumiferanae fur returns g beans graph Green River hatching success host increase Keith larvae linear log density log reproductive rate logistic lynx cycle lynx series mean mortality moth natality nonlinear observed series open circles oscillation oviposition PACF parasitism parasitoids partial autocorrelation pattern perturbation effect plots population density population dynamics population fluctuation population process population series predation prey R₁ region regression regulation reproduction surface Royama sample second-order series experiment series in Fig sex ratio simulation snowshoe hare solid circles species spruce budworm stage stationary statistical stochastic process survival rate Table tends tion trend Utida variance wasp weevils X₁ y₁ zero
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Page 349 - Evans, in RA Samson, JM Vlak, and D. Peters, eds., Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Invertebrate Pathology, Proc.
Page 352 - Some aspects of the epidemiology of a microsporidian parasite of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.).
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