Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems

✍ Scribed by Hal Caswell, Roger M. Nisbet, André M. de Roos, Shripad Tuljapurkar (auth.), Shripad Tuljapurkar, Hal Caswell (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 643
• Series: Population and Community Biology Series 18
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the summer of 1993, twenty-six graduate and postdoctoral stu­ dents and fourteen lecturers converged on Cornell University for a summer school devoted to structured-population models. This school was one of a series to address concepts cutting across the traditional boundaries separating terrestrial, marine, and freshwa­ ter ecology. Earlier schools resulted in the books Patch Dynamics (S. A. Levin, T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993) and Ecological Time Series (T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Chapman and Hall, New York, 1995); a book on food webs is in preparation. Models of population structure (differences among individuals due to age, size, developmental stage, spatial location, or genotype) have an important place in studies of all three kinds of ecosystem. In choosing the participants and lecturers for the school, we se­ lected for diversity-biologists who knew some mathematics and mathematicians who knew some biology, field biologists sobered by encounters with messy data and theoreticians intoxicated by the elegance of the underlying mathematics, people concerned with long-term evolutionary problems and people concerned with the acute crises of conservation biology. For four weeks, these perspec­ tives swirled in discussions that started in the lecture hall and carried on into the sweltering Ithaca night. Diversity mayor may not increase stability, but it surely makes things interesting.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Structured-Population Models: Many Methods, a Few Basic Concepts....Pages 3-17
Matrix Methods for Population Analysis....Pages 19-58
Stochastic Matrix Models....Pages 59-87
Delay-Differential Equations for Structured Populations....Pages 89-118
A Gentle Introduction to Physiologically Structured Population Models....Pages 119-204
Nonlinear Matrix Equations and Population Dynamics....Pages 205-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
The Relative “Importance” of Life-History Stages to Population Growth: Prospective and Retrospective Analyses....Pages 247-271
Life-History Evolution and Extinction....Pages 273-302
Population Dynamics of Tribolium ....Pages 303-328
Evolutionary Dynamics of Structured Populations....Pages 329-353
The Effect of Overlapping Generations and Population Structure on Gene-Frequency Clines....Pages 355-369
Dynamics of Populations with Density-Dependent Recruitment and Age Structure....Pages 371-408
Models for Marine Ecosystems....Pages 409-432
Frequency Response of a Simple Food-Chain Model with Time-Delayed Recruitment: Implications for Abiotic-Biotic Coupling....Pages 433-450
Stochastic Demography for Conservation Biology....Pages 451-469
Sensitivity Analysis of Structured-Population Models for Management and Conservation....Pages 471-513
Nonlinear Ergodic Theorems and Symmetric versus Asymmetric Competition....Pages 515-532
The Evolution of Age-Structured Marriage Functions: It Takes Two to Tango....Pages 533-553
Inverse Problems and Structured-Population Dynamics....Pages 555-586
Nonlinear Models of Structured Populations: Dynamic Consequences of Stage Structure and Discrete Sampling....Pages 587-613
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Multispecies Lottery Competition: A Diffusion Analysis....Pages 615-622
Back Matter....Pages 623-643

✦ Subjects

Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Mathematical and Computational Biology