Ecology of Populations

ISBN-13: 9780521854351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 388 str.

Esa Ranta; Per Lundberg; Veijo Kaitala

Opis

The theme of this book is the distribution of the abundance of organisms in space and time. Its core 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. The book shows how elementary analytical tools can be used to understand population fluctuations, synchrony, processes underlying range distributions and community structure and species coexistence, as well as how spatial population dynamics models can be used to understand life history evolution and aspects of evolutionary game theory.

Recenzje

"...the strenghts of the book lie primarily in its accessibility and proximity to the cutting edge of population ecology research."
Robert P. Freckleton, Ecology

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Population renewal; 3. Population dynamics in space - the first step; 4. Synchronicity; 5. Order- disorder in space and time; 6. Structured populations; 7. Biodiversity and community structure; 8. Habitat loss; 9. Harvesting and management; 10. Resource matching; 11. Spatial games; 12. Evolutionary and population dynamics; 13. Epilogue.