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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... mathematical and quantitative material , leaving students with a product that has been intellectually gutted . More traditional texts ( and instructors ) that do cover mathematical models also err by assuming the mathematical details ...
... mathematical and quantitative material , leaving students with a product that has been intellectually gutted . More traditional texts ( and instructors ) that do cover mathematical models also err by assuming the mathematical details ...
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... mathematics and statistics to summarize and interpret these measure- ments . But why do we need the mathematical models ? One answer is that we need models because nature is so complex . We could spend a lifetime mea- suring different ...
... mathematics and statistics to summarize and interpret these measure- ments . But why do we need the mathematical models ? One answer is that we need models because nature is so complex . We could spend a lifetime mea- suring different ...
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... mathematical models used in ecology . Many of the equations in this primer can also be found in your textbook . However , your textbook may provide little or no explanation for where these equations come from , whereas the primer ...
... mathematical models used in ecology . Many of the equations in this primer can also be found in your textbook . However , your textbook may provide little or no explanation for where these equations come from , whereas the primer ...
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