Advanced Ecological Theory is intended for both postgraduate students and professional researchers in ecology. It provides an overview of current advances in the field as well as closely related areas in evolution, ecological economics, and natural-resource management, familiarizing the reader with the mathematical, computational and statistical approaches used in these different areas. The book has an exciting set of diverse contributions written by leading authorities.
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Advanced Ecological Theory is intended for both postgraduate students and professional researchers in ecology. It provides an overview of current advances in the field as well as closely related areas in evolution, ecological economics and natural resource management, familiarizing the reader with the mathematical, computational and statistical approaches used in thee different areas. The book has an exciting set of diverse contributions written by leading authorities.
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Individual-based models (IBMs) are, as their name suggests, mathematical models in which individual organisms, or groups of individuals with the same characteristics, are explicitly studied. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
critical transmissibility, sink species, pairwise model, unconditional altruism, pair approximation, trials approximation, critical community size, boundary equilibria, test for permanence, artificial ecology, inference net, mosaic cycle, plant monocultures, artificial ecologies, consumer species, ecological assets, species pool, heteroclinic cycles, assembly dynamics, allometric exponents, large marine ecosystems, invading population, regional pool, stochastic realizations, augmented system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Individual-based models (IBMs) are, as their name suggests, mathematical models in which individual organisms, or groups of individuals with the same characteristics, are explicitly studied. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
critical transmissibility, sink species, pairwise model, unconditional altruism, pair approximation, trials approximation, critical community size, boundary equilibria, test for permanence, artificial ecology, inference net, mosaic cycle, plant monocultures, artificial ecologies, consumer species, ecological assets, species pool, heteroclinic cycles, assembly dynamics, allometric exponents, large marine ecosystems, invading population, regional pool, stochastic realizations, augmented system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Naturalist, New York, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Theoretical Population Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Maynard Smith, Academic Press, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ecological Monographs, John Wiley, Mathematical Biosciences, Blackwell Science, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Zoology, Time Fig, Simplifying Spatial Complexity, Sinauer Associates, The Geometry of Ecological Interactions New!
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- Species Diversity in Ecological Communities by Robert E. Ricklefs on 4 pages
- Food Webs by Stuart L. Pimm on 4 pages
- Food Webs by Gary A. Polis on page 191, page 192, and page 230
- The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity (Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics) by Ulf Dieckmann on page 94, page 96, and page 99
- Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics) (Pt. 1) by James D. Murray on page 21, page 62, and page 99
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- The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem: Environmental Forcing and Sustainable Development of Marine Resources (Large Marine Ecosystems) by J.M. McGlade on page 81
- Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology and Evolution (Oxford Biology) by Peter J. Mayhew in Back Matter
- Dispersal Ecology: 42nd Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the British Ecological Society) by James M. Bullock on page 442
- Mathematical Studies on Human Disease Dynamics: Emerging Paradigms and Challenges (Contemporary Mathematics) by and Dominic P. Clemence on page 234
- Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life by Eckart Voland on page 137
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