Population Ecology (eBook)

First Principles - Second Edition

Deborah E. Goldberg, John H. Vandermeer (Autoren)

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2013 | 2., Second Edition
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4873-7 (ISBN)

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John H. Vandermeer is the Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Deborah E. Goldberg is the Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.

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The essential introduction to population ecology-now expanded and fully updatedEcology 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 ecologyFeatures numerous exercises and examples throughoutIntroduces students to the key literature in the fieldThe essential textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate studentsAn online illustration package is available to professors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 129 line illus. 4 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Abscissa • aphid • attractor • balance of nature • Bifurcation diagram • Bifurcation Theory • Biomass (ecology) • birth process • birth rate • Butterfly effect • Calculation • Carrying Capacity • chaos theory • Chi-squared test • coefficient • Competition • competitive exclusion principle • Correlation and dependence • Demography • Density dependence • Determinant • Diagram (category theory) • differential equation • Dimension • Ecology • ecosystem • Effective population size • Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors • epidemiology • Equilibrium Point • estimation • Evolutionary pressure • expected value • exponential function • exponential growth • Extrapolation • Fecundity • For All Practical Purposes • functional response • genetic variability • Hectare • Indeterminate growth • instability • interspecific competition • intraspecific competition • Isocline • Leslie matrix • Life Table • Limit cycle • Local extinction • logarithm • logistic function • logistic map • Longevity • Markov Chain • Mathematical Optimization • Mean field theory • metapopulation • mortality rate • Mutualism (biology) • natural logarithm • Natural selection • nutrient • Obligate • observational study • organism • Paradox of enrichment • Parameter • parasitism • pathogen • pattern formation • Period-doubling bifurcation • Poisson distribution • Population • Population cycle • population dynamics • Population Ecology • Population Growth • Population process • Population Size • Population viability analysis • predation • Probability • Probability Distribution • Projection matrix • Proportionality (mathematics) • Quadrat • Quantity • Reproductive success • Ricker model • Saddle-node bifurcation • Scramble competition • State Space • state variable • Statistical population • stochastic • Trade-off • Variable (mathematics) • Vital rates • Wrong direction
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4873-3 / 1400848733
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4873-7 / 9781400848737