A Primer of EcologyWith the aim of teaching students the essential models in population and community ecology, this book explains in detail the basic concepts of exponential and logistic population growth, age-structured demography, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation and island biogeography. |
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... Lotka - Volterra model . Models with nonlinear isoclines have more complex stability properties that are not easy to deduce from simple state - space ... Lotka - Volterra model MODEL VARIATIONS 127 MODEL VARIATIONS Intraguild Predation.
... Lotka - Volterra model . Models with nonlinear isoclines have more complex stability properties that are not easy to deduce from simple state - space ... Lotka - Volterra model MODEL VARIATIONS 127 MODEL VARIATIONS Intraguild Predation.
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... Lotka - Volterra model is that the predator is a specialist on the victim . Suppose instead that the predator has alternative prey sources . Then , when the victim population becomes less abundant , the predator population can continue ...
... Lotka - Volterra model is that the predator is a specialist on the victim . Suppose instead that the predator has alternative prey sources . Then , when the victim population becomes less abundant , the predator population can continue ...
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... Lotka - Volterra model . Empirical Examples POPULATION CYCLES OF HARE AND LYNX The basic prediction of the Lotka - Volterra model is the regular cycling of predator and prey populations . The most famous example of this cycling is the ...
... Lotka - Volterra model . Empirical Examples POPULATION CYCLES OF HARE AND LYNX The basic prediction of the Lotka - Volterra model is the regular cycling of predator and prey populations . The most famous example of this cycling is the ...
Contents
Logistic Population Growth Expens | 27 |
AgeStructured Population Growth | 55 |
MODEL PRESENTATION AND PREDICTIONS | 90 |
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abundance age class age structure Allee effect allenbyi assumptions axis birth and death birth rate calculate carrying capacity Chapter coexistence colonization competition competitors constant death rate decrease density-dependent depends E. O. Wilson ecology Euler equation example exponential growth Expression extinction rate Figure fluctuations functional response habitat immigration rate interspecific competition isocline of species iteroparous K-selection K₁ K₂ large islands Leslie matrix logarithmic logistic growth logistic model Lotka-Volterra equations Lotka-Volterra model MacArthur-Wilson model mathematical maximum metapopulation metapopulation models N₁ N₂ number of individuals Number of predators number of species Number of victims offspring parasite passive sampling model patches persist population cycles population growth rate population sizes predator and victim predator isocline predator population primer rate of increase red grouse represents reproductive value rescue effect schedule source pool species richness species-area relationship survivorship survivorship curve tion turnover ulation victim density victim isocline victim population zero