The core message of this study is that key insights emerge from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of the approach will make ecology a more predictive science. What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? Despite great progress in the twentieth century, much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers to these classic questions in ecology. This book takes an original approach by describing and deploying progressive research methods.
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"This volume would make a wonderful text for a graduate seminar in population dynamics; and can serve as a launching pad for further readings on the subject." Écoscience
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What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? Despite great progress in the twentieth century much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers these classic questions in ecology. This book takes a fresh approach, describing and deploying methods that point the way forward. The core message is that the key insights come from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of this approach will make ecology a more predictive science.
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This book takes a fresh approach to some of the classic questions in ecology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
density paradigm, total density dependence, finite population growth rate, quarterly rainfall, kangaroo density, field vole abundance, heather productivity, owl abundance, pasture biomass, numerical response model, stochastic growth rate, barn owl population, possum density, tenuis system, relationship between population growth rate, demographic efficiency, demographic paradigm, generalized logistic model, ofwildlife management, delayed density dependence, annual adult survival, food production index, prey rate, flowering strategies, food hypothesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, The Royal Society, New Zealand, Jim Hone, Latin America, Kinchega National Park, United Nations, World War, Mandarte Island, National Research Council, North Atlantic, South Polar, United States, Western Australia, Orongorongo Valley, The Solomon-type, British Columbia, Exe Estuary, French Polynesia, Pararaki Valley, South Asia, Van Eerden New!
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density paradigm, total density dependence, finite population growth rate, quarterly rainfall, kangaroo density, field vole abundance, heather productivity, owl abundance, pasture biomass, numerical response model, stochastic growth rate, barn owl population, possum density, tenuis system, relationship between population growth rate, demographic efficiency, demographic paradigm, generalized logistic model, ofwildlife management, delayed density dependence, annual adult survival, food production index, prey rate, flowering strategies, food hypothesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, The Royal Society, New Zealand, Jim Hone, Latin America, Kinchega National Park, United Nations, World War, Mandarte Island, National Research Council, North Atlantic, South Polar, United States, Western Australia, Orongorongo Valley, The Solomon-type, British Columbia, Exe Estuary, French Polynesia, Pararaki Valley, South Asia, Van Eerden New!
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- Western Europe: United Kingdom: Economic and Social Studies by Ray Hudson on page 204, and Back Matter
- Regulation and Stabilization Paradigms in Population Ecology (Population and Community Biology Series) by P.J. Boer in Back Matter
- New Zealand (Enchantment of the World, Second) by Donna Walsh Shepherd in Back Matter
- Environmental Toxicology (Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series) by David A. Wright in Back Matter
- New South (Yale chronicles of America series) by Holland Thompson in Back Matter
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- Conservation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics and Management by L. Scott Mills in Back Matter
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