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The Biology of Lemmings

Author : Nils Chr Stenseth
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Lemmings written by Nils Chr Stenseth and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of cyclic population fluctuation in small rodents, and specifically lemmings, has been a major issue in ecology for decades. A number of questions, both truly scientific and also of popular mythology,surround the biology of these animals. Although a tremendous amount of research has been carried out on lemmings, much remains to be resolved. And while the story of the suicidal rodent is now understood as myth, the facts behind the population behavior of lemmings require further study. In this book well-known ecologists Stenseth and Ims have brought together a number of leading experts from both North America and Europe to review our current understanding of the taxonomy, population biology, feeding, and community ecology of lemmings.The authors put this current, but rather fragmentary, understanding of lemming biology into a general population biological context."In many ways we see lemmings as an important model species within population biology,"Stenseth acknowledges in the preface. Starting with the 16th Century, the book's introduction overviews the history of lemming research. The chapters are grouped into theme sections, each prefaced by an introductory review by the editors. The overall result is the most comprehensive and coherent overview of the subject to date.Finally, six appendices give detailed advice on how to study lemmings, which will provide an invaluable reference for research in the future. Contains never-before published material on the Norwegian lemming Lemmus lemmus Includes papers presented at a meeting on lemming biology at the biological station of Konnevesi at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Edited and authored by experts in the field

Do Lemmings Commit Suicide?

Author : Dennis Chitty
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195097858
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? written by Dennis Chitty and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a personal history and apology, written by one of this century's most distinguished small mammal ecologists, for a life in science spent working on problems for which no final dramatic conclusion was reached. Included along the way are some important anecdotes and history about Charles Elton and the pioneering work at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford University, from which most of modern population ecology has grown, and insigts on the philosophy and practice of science.

Do Lemmings Commit Suicide?

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602560574
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a group of scientists, working at Oxford University, began "the pursuit of the ecological Holy Grail," an endeavor devoted to the search for the secret mechanisms behind biological life cycles as they occur in many animal populations. By 1935, the group had become the Bureau of Animal Population and was joined for one year, part-time, by a newly minted graduate of the University of Toronto. Twenty-six years later, when he returned to Canada. Dennis Chitty had learned much about cycles and even more about the process of science. The results are presented here in an intriguing and often irreverent account of science, not as it should be, but as it was and is. Unlike many science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher but more common story of a scientific question left unanswered. Written by one of this century's most distinguished small-mammal ecologists, it is both a personal history and a vigorous defense of a life in pure science - even when no final dramatic closure was reached. Included along the way are important accounts of the pioneering work of Charles Elton, from which much of modern population biology has grown, and insights on the philosophy and practice of science.

The Biology and Conservation of Animal Populations

Author : John A. Vucetich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144917X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Biology and Conservation of Animal Populations written by John A. Vucetich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work is the first textbook on population biology grounded in conservation of wildlife, giving students an approachable and motivational context for equation-heavy fundamentals"--

Advances in Ecological Research

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780120139330
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Ecological Research written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Ecological Research presents a wide range of papers on all aspects of ecology. Topics include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology. The evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants Trophic interactions in population cycles of voles and lemmings Scale effects and extrapolation in ecological experiments

Biology and Conservation of Owls of the Northern Hemisphere

Author : James R. Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Biology and Conservation of Owls of the Northern Hemisphere written by James R. Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biology of Small Mammals

Author : Joseph F. Merritt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801879507
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Small Mammals written by Joseph F. Merritt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals of this size face different physiological and ecological challenges than larger mammals.

Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms

Author : Daniel I. Hembree
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 9401787212
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms by : Daniel I. Hembree

Download or read book Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms written by Daniel I. Hembree and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleontologists and geologists struggle with research questions often complicated by the loss or even absence of key paleobiological and paleoenvironmental information. Insight into this missing data can be gained through direct exploration of analogous living organisms and modern environments. Creative, experimental and interdisciplinary treatments of such ancient-Earth analogs form the basis of Lessons from the Living. This volume unites a diverse range of expert paleontologists, neontologists and geologists presenting case studies that cover a spectrum of topics, including functional morphology, taphonomy, environments and organism-substrate interactions.

Complex Population Dynamics

Author : Peter Turchin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847281
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Complex Population Dynamics written by Peter Turchin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do organisms become extremely abundant one year and then seem to disappear a few years later? Why do population outbreaks in particular species happen more or less regularly in certain locations, but only irregularly (or never at all) in other locations? Complex population dynamics have fascinated biologists for decades. By bringing together mathematical models, statistical analyses, and field experiments, this book offers a comprehensive new synthesis of the theory of population oscillations. Peter Turchin first reviews the conceptual tools that ecologists use to investigate population oscillations, introducing population modeling and the statistical analysis of time series data. He then provides an in-depth discussion of several case studies--including the larch budmoth, southern pine beetle, red grouse, voles and lemmings, snowshoe hare, and ungulates--to develop a new analysis of the mechanisms that drive population oscillations in nature. Through such work, the author argues, ecologists can develop general laws of population dynamics that will help turn ecology into a truly quantitative and predictive science. Complex Population Dynamics integrates theoretical and empirical studies into a major new synthesis of current knowledge about population dynamics. It is also a pioneering work that sets the course for ecology's future as a predictive science.

Chaos in Real Data

Author : J.N. Perry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401140103
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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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.

The Snowy Owl

Author : Eugene Potapov
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408172178
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Snowy Owl written by Eugene Potapov and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive monograph of the beautiful Snowy Owl, famed for its elegant, all-white plumage. The Snowy Owl needs little introduction. This massive white owl breeds throughout the Arctic, wherever there are voles or lemmings to hunt, from Scandinavia through northern Russia to Canada and Greenland. Southerly movements in winter see North American birds travel as far south as the northern United States, while infrequent vagrants on the Shetlands and other northern isles are a magnet for birders. The Snowy Owl gives this popular bird the full Poyser treatment, with sections on morphology, distribution, palaeontology and evolution, habitat, breeding, diet, population dynamics, movements, interspecific relationships and conservation, supported by some fabulous photography. The award-winning author team also had access to Russian research literature, which is generally out of reach for Western scientists.

Dispatches from the End of Ice

Author : Beth Peterson
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595349006
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from the End of Ice written by Beth Peterson and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the world’s ice is at a critical juncture marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers and ice shelves breaking, oceans rising, and temperatures spiking across the globe. These changing landscapes and the public discourse surrounding them are changing fast. It is science wrought with mystery, and for Beth Peterson it became personal. A few months after Peterson moved to a tiny village on the edge of Europe’s largest glacier, things began to disappear. The glacier was melting at breakneck pace, and people she knew vanished: her professor went missing while summiting a volcano in Japan, and a friend wandered off a mountain trail in Norway. Finally, Peterson took a harrowing forty-foot fall while ice climbing. Peterson’s effort to make sense of these losses led to travels across Scandinavia, Italy, England and back to the United States. She visited a cryonics institute, an ice core lab, a wunderkammer, Wittgenstein’s cabin, and other museums and libraries. She spoke with historians, guides, and scientists in search of answers. Her search for a noted glacier museum in Norway led to news that the renowned building had set on fire in the middle of the night before and burned to the ground. Dispatches from the End of Ice is part science, part lyric essay, and part research reportage—all structured around a series of found artifacts (a map, a museum, an inventory, a book) in an attempt to understand the idea of disappearance. It is a brilliant synthesis of science, storytelling, and research in the spirit of essayists like Robert Macfarlane, John McPhee, and Joni Tevis. Peterson’s work veers into numerous terrains, orbiting the idea of vanishing and the taxonomies of loss both in an unstable world and in our individual lives.

Alpine Biodiversity in Europe

Author : Laszlo Nagy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642189679
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Alpine Biodiversity in Europe written by Laszlo Nagy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, spawned a multitude of pro grammes aimed at assessing, managing and conserving the earth's biological diversity. One important issue addressed at the conference was the mountain environment. A specific feature of high mountains is the so-called alpine zone, i. e. the treeless regions at the uppermost reaches. Though covering only a very small proportion of the land surface, the alpine zone contains a rela tively large number of plants, animals, fungi and microbes which are specifi cally adapted to cold environments. This zone contributes fundamentally to the planet's biodiversity and provides many resources for mountain dwelling as well as lowland people. However, rapid and largely man-made changes are affecting mountain ecosystems, such as soil erosion, losses of habitat and genetic diversity, and climate change, all of which have to be addressed. As stated in the European Community Biodiversity Strategy, "the global scale of biodiversity reduction or losses and the interdependence of different species and ecosystems across national borders demands concerted international action". Managing biodiversity in a rational and sustainable way needs basic knowledge on its qualitative and quantitative aspects at local, regional and global scales. This is particularly true for mountains, which are distributed throughout the world and are indeed hot spots of biodiversity in absolute terms as well as relative to the surrounding lowlands.

General Technical Report NC.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book General Technical Report NC. written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breathing Life into Biology

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534685
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Breathing Life into Biology written by John Stewart and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that contemporary biology is focused almost exclusively on genes and molecules. This approach, despite giving rise to exciting developments, such as DNA sequencing and genetic engineering, does not take into account the living organisms themselves. This text redresses this imbalance: firstly, by providing a sketch of a fully-fledged theory of what living organisms are; and then putting this theory to work by recounting the story of the evolution of living organisms on Earth.

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - Scientific Report

Author : Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521865093
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - Scientific Report written by Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was prepared by an international team of over 300 scientists, experts, and knowledgeable members of indigenous communities. The report has been thoroughly researched, is fully referenced, and provides the first comprehensive evaluation of arctic climate change, changes in ultraviolet radiation and their impacts for the region and for the world. It is illustrated in full color throughout. The results provided the scientific foundations for the ACIA synthesis report - Impacts of a Warming Arctic - published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.

Genes in Conflict

Author : Austin BURT
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029119
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Genes in Conflict written by Austin BURT and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all species from yeast to humans, this is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism.