Population Dynamics for Conservation

✍ Scribed by Louis W. Botsford, J. Wilson White, Alan Hastings

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 347
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The management and conservation of natural populations relies heavily on concepts and results generated from models of population dynamics. Yet this is the first book to present a unified and coherent explanation of the underlying theory. This novel text begins with a consideration of what makes a good state variable, progressing from the simplest models (those with a single variable such as abundance or biomass) to more complex models with other key variables of population structure (including age, size, life history stage, and space). Throughout the book, attention is paid to concepts such as population variability, population stability, population viability/persistence, and harvest yield. Later chapters address specific applications to conservation such as recovery planning for species at risk, fishery management, and the spatial management of marine resources.

Population Dynamics for Conservation is suitable for graduate-level students. It will also be valuable to academic and applied researchers in population biology. This overview of population dynamic theory can serve to further their population research, as well as to improve their understanding of population management.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Philosophical approach to population modeling
CHAPTER 2 Simple population models
CHAPTER 3 Linear, age-structured models and their long-term dynamics
CHAPTER 4 Age-structured models: Short-term transient dynamics
CHAPTER 5 Size-structured models
CHAPTER 6 Stage-structured models
CHAPTER 7 Age-structured models with density-dependent recruitment
CHAPTER 8 Age-structured models in a random environment
CHAPTER 9 Spatial population dynamics
CHAPTER 10 Applications to conservation biology
CHAPTER 11 Population dynamics in marine conservation
CHAPTER 12 Thinking about populations
Glossary
References
Index