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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... example , an individual in the third age class is between the ages of 2 and 3. Similarly , a newborn is of age 0 , but is in the first age class . If the ages in the population range from 0 to k , the age classes range from 1 to k . The ...
... example , an individual in the third age class is between the ages of 2 and 3. Similarly , a newborn is of age 0 , but is in the first age class . If the ages in the population range from 0 to k , the age classes range from 1 to k . The ...
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... example , the the- ory predicts that iteroparity evolves when organisms face resource competi- tion and must devote more of their energy to growth and maintenance than to reproduction . But iteroparity could also evolve as a " bet ...
... example , the the- ory predicts that iteroparity evolves when organisms face resource competi- tion and must devote more of their energy to growth and maintenance than to reproduction . But iteroparity could also evolve as a " bet ...
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... 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 case of the Canada lynx ( Lynx ...
... 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 case of the Canada lynx ( Lynx ...
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