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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... population is controlled by a fixed number of victims ( ◊ ) . The greater ... victim and predator isoclines , respectively . GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE ... victim population on the x axis yields a horizontal victim isocline , repre ...
... population is controlled by a fixed number of victims ( ◊ ) . The greater ... victim and predator isoclines , respectively . GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE ... victim population on the x axis yields a horizontal victim isocline , repre ...
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... population . Because of a victim car- rying capacity , predator functional response , Allee effects , and a variety of other reasons , the victim isocline may have a hump in the middle ( Rosenzweig and MacArthur 1963 ) , turning ...
... population . Because of a victim car- rying capacity , predator functional response , Allee effects , and a variety of other reasons , the victim isocline may have a hump in the middle ( Rosenzweig and MacArthur 1963 ) , turning ...
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... victim population , the predator population becomes limited when it reaches its own carrying capacity . ( b ) Effects of the avail- ability of alternative prey on the predator isocline . If the predator is not a specialist on the victim ...
... victim population , the predator population becomes limited when it reaches its own carrying capacity . ( b ) Effects of the avail- ability of alternative prey on the predator isocline . If the predator is not a specialist on the victim ...
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