Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions....
Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been ...
Addresses one of the main problems of population ecology - the inferrence of mortality rates for a set of age classes or development stages. After a survey of previously published methods, the text introduces spline theory and explains how to overcome instabilities that arise during estimation.
Addresses one of the main problems of population ecology - the inferrence of mortality rates for a set of age classes or development stages. After a s...
