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Author : Olin E. Rhodes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780222710581
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Population Dynamics in Ecological Space and Time written by Olin E. Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olin E. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226710587
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Population Dynamics in Ecological Space and Time written by Olin E. Rhodes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As profound threats to ecosystems increase worldwide, ecologists must move beyond studying single communities at a single point in time. All of the dynamic, interconnected spatial and temporal processes that determine the distribution and abundance of species must be understood in order to develop new conservation and management strategies. This volume is the first to integrate mathematical and biological approaches to these crucial topics. The editors include not only a wide variety of theoretical approaches, but also a broad range of experimental and field studies, with chapters written by renowned experts in community ecology, ecological modeling, population genetics, and conservation biology. In addition to providing new insights into well-known topics such as migration, the authors also introduce some less familiar subjects, including bacterial population genetics and ecotoxicology. For anyone interested in the study, management, and conservation of populations, this book will prove to be a valuable resource.
Author : K. B. Newman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493909770
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Modelling Population Dynamics written by K. B. Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within the framework of an annual cycle, and for which stochastic variability in the demographic processes is usually modest. Discrete-time models are developed in which animals can be assigned to discrete states such as age class, gender, maturity, population (within a metapopulation), or species (for multi-species models). The book goes well beyond estimation of abundance, allowing inference on underlying population processes such as birth or recruitment, survival and movement. This requires the formulation and fitting of population dynamics models. The resulting fitted models yield both estimates of abundance and estimates of parameters characterizing the underlying processes.
Author : Eric Renshaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521448550
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time written by Eric Renshaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops a unifying approach to population studies, emphasising the interplay between modelling and experimentation. Throughout, mathematicians and biologists are provided with a framework within which population dynamics can be fully explored and understood. Aspects of population dynamics covered include birth-death and logistic processes, competition and predator-prey relationships, chaos, reaction time-delays, fluctuating environments, spatial systems, velocities of spread, epidemics, and spatial branching structures. Both deterministic and stochastic models are considered. Whilst the more theoretically orientated sections will appeal to mathematical biologists, the material is presented so that readers with little mathematical expertise can bypass these without losing the main flow of the text.
Author : David Tilman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118836X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Spatial Ecology written by David Tilman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. Although the ecological world is unavoidably spatial, there have been few attempts to determine how explicit considerations of space may alter the predictions of ecological models, or what insights it may give into the causes of broad-scale ecological patterns. As this book demonstrates, the spatial structure of a habitat can fundamentally alter both the qualitative and quantitative dynamics and outcomes of ecological processes. Spatial Ecology highlights the importance of space to five topical areas: stability, patterns of diversity, invasions, coexistence, and pattern generation. It illustrates both the diversity of approaches used to study spatial ecology and the underlying similarities of these approaches. Over twenty contributors address issues ranging from the persistence of endangered species, to the maintenance of biodiversity, to the dynamics of hosts and their parasitoids, to disease dynamics, multispecies competition, population genetics, and fundamental processes relevant to all these cases. There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the influence of spatially explicit processes on individual species and on multispecies communities. This book synthesizes these advances, shows the limitations of traditional, non-spatial approaches, and offers a variety of new approaches to spatial ecology that should stimulate ecological research.
Author : Dennis L. Murray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470674148
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Population Ecology in Practice written by Dennis L. Murray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthesis of contemporary analytical and modeling approaches in population ecology The book provides an overview of the key analytical approaches that are currently used in demographic, genetic, and spatial analyses in population ecology. The chapters present current problems, introduce advances in analytical methods and models, and demonstrate the applications of quantitative methods to ecological data. The book covers new tools for designing robust field studies; estimation of abundance and demographic rates; matrix population models and analyses of population dynamics; and current approaches for genetic and spatial analysis. Each chapter is illustrated by empirical examples based on real datasets, with a companion website that offers online exercises and examples of computer code in the R statistical software platform. Fills a niche for a book that emphasizes applied aspects of population analysis Covers many of the current methods being used to analyse population dynamics and structure Illustrates the application of specific analytical methods through worked examples based on real datasets Offers readers the opportunity to work through examples or adapt the routines to their own datasets using computer code in the R statistical platform Population Ecology in Practice is an excellent book for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in population ecology or ecological statistics, as well as established researchers needing a desktop reference for contemporary methods used to develop robust population assessments.
Author : Esa Ranta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139448529
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Ecology of Populations written by Esa Ranta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the book is the distribution and abundance of organisms in space and time. The core of the book lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and immigration processes, and how environmental variability at different scales affects population dynamics with stochastic processes and spatial structure and shows how elementary analytical tools can be used to understand population fluctuations, synchrony, processes underlying range distributions and community structure and species coexistence. The book also shows how spatial population dynamics models can be used to understand life history evolution and aspects of evolutionary game theory. Although primarily based on analytical and numerical analyses of spatial population processes, data from several study systems are also dealt with.
Author : Louis W. Botsford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198758367
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Population Dynamics for Conservation written by Louis W. Botsford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines concepts such as population variability, population stability, population viability and persistance, and harvest yield. Also addressed are specific applications to conservation such as managing species at risk, fishery management, and the spatial manageement of marine resources.--Adapted from back cover.
Author : David Tilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691016535
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Spatial Ecology written by David Tilman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities. Although the ecological world is unavoidably spatial, there have been few attempts to determine how explicit considerations of space may alter the predictions of ecological models, or what insights it may give into the causes of broad-scale ecological patterns. As this book demonstrates, the spatial structure of a habitat can fundamentally alter both the qualitative and quantitative dynamics and outcomes of ecological processes. Spatial Ecology highlights the importance of space to five topical areas: stability, patterns of diversity, invasions, coexistence, and pattern generation. It illustrates both the diversity of approaches used to study spatial ecology and the underlying similarities of these approaches. Over twenty contributors address issues ranging from the persistence of endangered species, to the maintenance of biodiversity, to the dynamics of hosts and their parasitoids, to disease dynamics, multispecies competition, population genetics, and fundamental processes relevant to all these cases. There have been many recent advances in our understanding of the influence of spatially explicit processes on individual species and on multispecies communities. This book synthesizes these advances, shows the limitations of traditional, non-spatial approaches, and offers a variety of new approaches to spatial ecology that should stimulate ecological research.
Author : Timothy D. Schowalter
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080508812
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Insect Ecology written by Timothy D. Schowalter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Timothy Schowalter has succeeded in creating a unique, updated treatment of insect ecology. This revised and expanded text looks at how insects adapt to environmental conditions while maintaining the ability to substantially alter their environment. It covers a range of topics- from individual insects that respond to local changes in the environment and affect resource distribution, to entire insect communities that have the capacity to modify ecosystem conditions. Insect Ecology, Second Edition, synthesizes the latest research in the field and has been produced in full color throughout. It is ideal for students in both entomology and ecology-focused programs. NEW TO THIS EDITION: * New topics such as elemental defense by plants, chaotic models, molecular methods to measure disperson, food web relationships, and more * Expanded sections on plant defenses, insect learning, evolutionary tradeoffs, conservation biology and more * Includes more than 350 new references * More than 40 new full-color figures
Author : John H. Vandermeer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400848733
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Population Ecology written by John H. Vandermeer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology has advanced dramatically, growing in mathematical and theoretical sophistication. Here, two leading experts present the fundamental quantitative principles of ecology in an accessible yet rigorous way, introducing students to the most basic of all ecological subjects, the structure and dynamics of populations. John Vandermeer and Deborah Goldberg show that populations are more than simply collections of individuals. Complex variables such as distribution and territory for expanding groups come into play when mathematical models are applied. Vandermeer and Goldberg build these models from the ground up, from first principles, using a broad range of empirical examples, from animals and viruses to plants and humans. They address a host of exciting topics along the way, including age-structured populations, spatially distributed populations, and metapopulations. This second edition of Population Ecology is fully updated and expanded, with additional exercises in virtually every chapter, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook of its kind. Provides an accessible mathematical foundation for the latest advances in ecology Features numerous exercises and examples throughout Introduces students to the key literature in the field The essential textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students An online illustration package is available to professors
Author : Jonathan Silvertown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521549332
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context written by Jonathan Silvertown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading population biologists examine ecological and evolutionary issues in the context of space.
Author : Alan A. Berryman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402068190
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Population Systems written by Alan A. Berryman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is concerned with the general principles and theories of population ecology, based on the idea that the rules governing the dynamics of populations are relatively simple, and that the rich behavior we observe in nature is a consequence of the structure of the system rather than of the complexity of the underlying rules. From this perspective, the dynamic behavior of single-species populations is examined and an elementary feedback model of the population system is developed. This single-species model is refined and generalized by examining the mechanisms of population regulation.
Author : Anupam Pandey
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House Pvt Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789350561133
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Population Ecology written by Anupam Pandey and published by Discovery Publishing House Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Population ecology is a major sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment.The first journal publication of the Society of Population Ecology, titled Population Ecology (originally called Researches on Population Ecology), was released in 1952. Population ecology is concerned with the study of groups of organisms that live together in time and space. One of the first laws of population ecology is the Thomas Malthus' exponential law of population growth. This law states that: "...a population will grow (or decline) exponentially as long as the environment experienced by all individuals in the population remains constant"
Author : John H. Vandermeer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691160317
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Population Ecology written by John H. Vandermeer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential introduction to population ecology—now expanded and fully updated Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology has advanced dramatically, growing in mathematical and theoretical sophistication. Here, two leading experts present the fundamental quantitative principles of ecology in an accessible yet rigorous way, introducing students to the most basic of all ecological subjects, the structure and dynamics of populations. John Vandermeer and Deborah Goldberg show that populations are more than simply collections of individuals. Complex variables such as distribution and territory for expanding groups come into play when mathematical models are applied. Vandermeer and Goldberg build these models from the ground up, from first principles, using a broad range of empirical examples, from animals and viruses to plants and humans. They address a host of exciting topics along the way, including age-structured populations, spatially distributed populations, and metapopulations. This second edition of Population Ecology is fully updated and expanded, with additional exercises in virtually every chapter, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook of its kind. Provides an accessible mathematical foundation for the latest advances in ecology Features numerous exercises and examples throughout Introduces students to the key literature in the field The essential textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students An online illustration package is available to professors
Author : Marcel Holyoak
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226350649
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Metacommunities written by Marcel Holyoak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the hallmarks of metapopulation theory to the next level by considering a group of communities, each of which may contain numerous populations, connected by species interactions within communities and the movement of individuals between communities. This book seeks to understand how communities work in fragmented landscapes.
Author : J.N. Perry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401140103
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Chaos in Real Data written by J.N. Perry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos in Real Data studies the range of data analytic techniques available to study nonlinear population dynamics for ecological time series. Several case studies are studied using typically short and noisy population data from field and laboratory. A range of modern approaches, such as response surface methodology and mechanistic mathematical modelling, are applied to several case studies. Experts honestly appraise how well these methods have performed on their data. The accessible style of the book ensures its readability for non-quantitative biologists. The data remain available, as benchmarks for future study, on the worldwide web.
