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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Nicholas J. Gotelli. reproduce themselves in fractional values . However , population growth of long - lived ... rate . The units of b are number of births per individual per unit time [ births / ( individual • time ) ] . Over a short ...
Nicholas J. Gotelli. reproduce themselves in fractional values . However , population growth of long - lived ... rate . The units of b are number of births per individual per unit time [ births / ( individual • time ) ] . Over a short ...
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... of increase , or the Malthusian parameter after the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus ( 1766-1834 ) . In his famous " Essay on the Principle of Population ” ( 1798 ) , Malthus argued that food supply could never keep pace with human population ...
... of increase , or the Malthusian parameter after the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus ( 1766-1834 ) . In his famous " Essay on the Principle of Population ” ( 1798 ) , Malthus argued that food supply could never keep pace with human population ...
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... population size that can be supported . Thus , K encom- passes many potentially limiting resources , including the availability of space , food , and shelter ... rate ( d ) Birth 30 CHAPTER 2 : LOGISTIC POPULATION GROWTH Carrying Capacity.
... population size that can be supported . Thus , K encom- passes many potentially limiting resources , including the availability of space , food , and shelter ... rate ( d ) Birth 30 CHAPTER 2 : LOGISTIC POPULATION GROWTH Carrying Capacity.
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