Quantitative Ecological Theory: An Introduction to Basic Models

✍ Scribed by Michael R. Rose (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is an inadvertent book, though it did arise naturally enough from a course I give in theoretical ecology. But I wouldn't have given the course at all if one colleague in my department hadn't left for a leave of absence, while another abruptly resigned. This propelled me to the fore where this teaching responsibility was concerned, one I had never had any intention of discharging. Then it turned out that one of my students was regularly unable to make half the classes. As a result, I began giving him my lecture notes each week. As I knew that someone else would be reading them, I began to write my notes more carefully. Naturally enough, the other students soon began to demand the notes too. Eventually they were indulged. Thus I found myself writing a textbook manuscript. By the next year, the students were handed all their notes in one package at the outset. But these were still just hand-written. Inevitably, the demand that they be typed arose. This I didn't want to do until I found a publisher. As it turned out, Tim Hardwick of Croom Helm was willing to have his firm fill this role, to my great satisfaction. • and his considerable frustration. I have been a desultory author about producing this final text, and can only express my gratitude for his enduring patience over more than 18 months of delays.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Population Growth....Pages 7-48
Competition....Pages 49-97
Predation....Pages 98-132
Simple Ecosystems....Pages 133-153
Complex Ecosystems....Pages 154-162
Migration....Pages 163-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-203

✦ Subjects

Evolutionary Biology; Ecology