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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... pyramidum in the western Negev desert of Israel . Experimental studies of vertebrate competition are particularly difficult because of the large areas needed to enclose populations , and because com- petition is often mediated by subtle ...
... pyramidum in the western Negev desert of Israel . Experimental studies of vertebrate competition are particularly difficult because of the large areas needed to enclose populations , and because com- petition is often mediated by subtle ...
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... pyramidum , but a shallow slope at intermediate competitor densities . Why isn't the isocline of G. allenbyi a straight line ? The answer is that activ- ity density depends not only on the abundance of competitors , but also on the ...
... pyramidum , but a shallow slope at intermediate competitor densities . Why isn't the isocline of G. allenbyi a straight line ? The answer is that activ- ity density depends not only on the abundance of competitors , but also on the ...
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... pyramidum . This nonlinear isocline reflects the effects of competition and habitat selection . The thin lines ... pyramidum . Problems 1. You are studying competition between red and black. Activity density of G. pyramidum. 00000.
... pyramidum . This nonlinear isocline reflects the effects of competition and habitat selection . The thin lines ... pyramidum . Problems 1. You are studying competition between red and black. Activity density of G. pyramidum. 00000.
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