Analytical Population Dynamics

✍ Scribed by T. Royama (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 383
• Series: Population and Community Biology Series 10
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A knowledge of animal population dynamics is essential for the proper management of natural resources and the environment. This book, now available in paperback, develops basic concepts and a rigorous methodology for the analysis of animal population dynamics to identify the underlying mechanisms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Basic properties and structure of population processes....Pages 3-46
Structures and patterns of population processes....Pages 47-91
Statistical analysis of population fluctuations....Pages 92-139
Population process models....Pages 140-168
Front Matter....Pages 167-168
Analysis of the lynx 10-year cycle....Pages 169-198
Snowshoe hare demography....Pages 199-236
Density effects on the dynamics of a single-species population: Utida’s experiments on the azuki bean weevil....Pages 237-265
Dynamics of a host—parasitoid interaction system: Utida’s experimental study....Pages 266-297
Dynamics of the spruce budworm outbreak processes....Pages 298-342
Epilogue....Pages 343-343
Back Matter....Pages 344-371

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Ecology