With the aim of teaching students the essential models in population and community ecology, this book explains in detail the basic concepts of exponential and logistic population growth, age-structured demography, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation and island biogeography. Each chapter is graded from simple material to advanced material, for both beginning undergraduates and upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates.
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NICHOLAS J. GOTELLI is Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Vermont.
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Four and one half stars.Dr. Gotelli's book is the most successful which I am familiar at "demystifying" the mathematical concepts in ecology. "A primer of ecology" is very well organized and written so as not to frighten off the uninitiated, but covers the mathematics well enough to be an adequate refresher for those that have slipped in some areas. The inclusion of ecological succession in the 3rd edition is an important addition and not merely a reason to put out a new version. I highly recommend this text to anyone who is interested in learning about ecological study, and I think it would make an excellent senior undergraduate or supplemental graduate text.
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Gotelli's work is one of the best Ecology books out there!!!,
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I had to read Gotelli's A Primer of Ecology for my Ecology class at Brown University. I thought that it was by far the most comprehensive and easily read book used in that class. The mathematical models were always backed up with empirical evidence to several models in the field. A definate must read for all ecologists!
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Great First Approach on Ecology,
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This review is from: A Primer of Ecology, Fourth Edition (Paperback)
This book is a must for people starting to study ecology.
It's short, very well written and clear, concise, not oversimplifying, and it's very nice to read. It has real life examples too. It's true it doesn't go very deep, but it gives you the perfect fundation to go deeper after it, reading Begon for example, which is a good book but gives for granted a lot of concepts. Anyone can read this book, because it starts fron absolut zero, which is the very best of it.
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A population is a group of plants, animals, or other organisms, all of the same species, that live together and reproduce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Empirical Examples, Model Variations, Year Figure, Mandarte Island, New Guinea, Morgan Hill, Open Grassland Shrub Forest Open, San Luis, Substituting Expressions, Yellowstone National Park, After Krebs, Noert Equation, West Indies New!
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A population is a group of plants, animals, or other organisms, all of the same species, that live together and reproduce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Empirical Examples, Model Variations, Year Figure, Mandarte Island, New Guinea, Morgan Hill, Open Grassland Shrub Forest Open, San Luis, Substituting Expressions, Yellowstone National Park, After Krebs, Noert Equation, West Indies New!
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- Community Ecology by Ted J. Case in Back Matter
- Modeling Nature (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Sharon E. Kingsland in Back Matter
- Biological Diversity: The Coexistence of Species by Michael A. Huston in Back Matter
- Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model by Daniel B. Botkin in Back Matter
- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher in Back Matter
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- The Ecology of Plants by Jessica Gurevitch on page 349, and Back Matter
- Conservation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics and Management by L. Scott Mills in Back Matter
- Structure and Dynamics of Fungal Populations (Population and Community Biology Series) by J. Worrall on page 192
- Fishery Science: The Unique Contributions of Early Life Stages by Lee A. Fuiman on page 63
- Ecological Dynamics by W. S. C. Gurney in Back Matter
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