Stability in Model Populations (eBook)

Amitabh Joshi, Laurence D. Mueller (Autoren)

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2020
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20994-4 (ISBN)

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Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by such agencies as competition and predation--should grow geometrically. How is order in nature maintained in the face of the seemingly disorderly struggle for existence? In this book, Laurence Mueller and Amitabh Joshi examine current theories of population stability and show how recent laboratory research on model populations--particularly blowflies, Tribolium, and Drosophila--contributes to our understanding of population dynamics and the evolution of stability. The authors review the general theory of population stability and critically analyze techniques for inferring whether a given population is in balance or not. They then show how rigorous empirical research can reveal both the proximal causes of stability (how populations are regulated and maintained at an equilibrium, including the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors) and its ultimate, mostly evolutionary causes. In the process, they describe experimental studies on model systems that address the effects of age-structure, inbreeding, resource levels, and population structure on the stability and persistence of populations. The discussion incorporates the authors' own findings on the evolution of population stability in Drosophila. They go on to relate laboratory work to studies of animals in the wild and to develop a general framework for relating the life history and ecology of a species to its population dynamics. This accessible, finely written illustration of how carefully designed experiments can improve theory will have tremendous value for all ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Zusatzinfo: 22 tables, 53 line illus., 25 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Acanthoscelides • Accuracy and precision • Age-structured populations • Agrostis scabra • Analysis of Variance • autocorrelation • Availability • balance of nature • Bupalus piniarius • Calculation • Callosobruchus • Cannibalism (zoology) • Carrying Capacity • Clethrionomys • coefficient of determination • coefficient of variation • Coevolution • Confidence interval • correlation coefficient • curve fitting • Degrees of freedom (statistics) • Dendroctonus frontalis • Dendrolimus pini • Density dependence • Determinant • differential equation • Drosophila • Ecology • Effective population size • epidemiology • Equilibrium Point • estimation • Estimation theory • Estimator • exponential function • Extrapolation • Fecundity • female • fertility • Forecasting • F-Test • Gamma distribution • general knowledge • goodness of fit • group selection • Hyoicus pinastri • Hyphantria cunea • Inbreeding • inference • Initial Condition • Jacobian matrix and determinant • larva • Likelihood Function • Linear Approximation • linear logistic • linear regression • Linkage Disequilibrium • Logarithmic scale • logistic function • logistic map • Longevity • Lotka–Volterra equations • Lucilia cuprina • Lyapunov exponent • Lymantria dispar • Lymantria monacha • metapopulation • model organism • Model Selection • Natural selection • nonlinear regression • Normal distribution • Outcome (probability) • Oviparity • Panolis flammea • Parlatoria camelliae • Periodic function • Population • Population bottleneck • Population cycle • population density • population dynamics • Population Ecology • Population Genetics • Population Growth • Population process • Population Size • Post hoc analysis • Prediction • predictive power • Probability • Probability density function • Probability Distribution • pupa • p-value • quantitative trait locus • Rational number • Residual sum of squares • response surface methodology • Response surface method (RSM) • result • Sampling (Statistics) • Serial transfer system • Sex Ratio • Small population size • Sophistication • spatial scale • Splachnum ampullaceum • standard deviation • stationary distribution • Statistic • Statistical population • stochastic • stochastic differential equation • Strong inference • Structural Stability • survival function • Test Theory • Tetraplodon angustatus • Tyria jacobaeae • Zeiraphera diniana
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20994-4 / 0691209944
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20994-4 / 9780691209944