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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... growth and the positive feedback that gives populations the potential to increase at an accelerating rate . Exponential population growth is also a key feature of Charles Darwin's ( 1809-1882 ) theory of natural selection . Darwin read ...
... growth and the positive feedback that gives populations the potential to increase at an accelerating rate . Exponential population growth is also a key feature of Charles Darwin's ( 1809-1882 ) theory of natural selection . Darwin read ...
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... growth equation looks like the equation for exponential growth ( rN ) multiplied by an additional term in parentheses ( 1 – N / K ) . The term in parentheses represents the unused portion of the carrying capacity . As an analogy , think ...
... growth equation looks like the equation for exponential growth ( rN ) multiplied by an additional term in parentheses ( 1 – N / K ) . The term in parentheses represents the unused portion of the carrying capacity . As an analogy , think ...
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Nicholas J. Gotelli. Model Presentation and Predictions EXPONENTIAL GROWTH WITH AGE STRUCTURE In Chapter 1 , we represented birth and death rates as single constants ... Exponential Growth with Age Structure Notation for Ages and Age Classes.
Nicholas J. Gotelli. Model Presentation and Predictions EXPONENTIAL GROWTH WITH AGE STRUCTURE In Chapter 1 , we represented birth and death rates as single constants ... Exponential Growth with Age Structure Notation for Ages and Age Classes.
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