| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 462 pages) : illustrations |
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Monographs in population biology ; 36 |
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Monographs in population biology ; 36
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Population Dynamics: Observations and Basic Concepts -- 3. Simple Models in Continuous Time -- 4. Simple Models in Discrete Time -- 5. An Introduction to Models with Stage Structure -- 6. Dynamical Effects of Parasitoid Lifestyles -- 7. State-Dependent Decisions -- 8. Competition between Consumer Species -- 9. Implications for Biological Control -- 10. Dynamical Effects of Spatial Processes -- 11. Synthesis and Integration across Systems -- 12. Concluding Remarks |
| Summary |
Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions. Thro |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-449) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Population biology -- Mathematical models
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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Population biology -- Mathematical models
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Population
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Wechselwirkung
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Populationsdynamik
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Mathematisches Modell
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Parasitoid
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Wirt
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Populatiedynamica.
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Wiskundige modellen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Briggs, Cheryl J., 1963-
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Nisbet, R. M
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| ISBN |
9781400847259 |
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1400847257 |
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