A Primer of Ecology - Couverture souple

Gotelli, Nicholas J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0878932739 ISBN 13 : 9780878932733

Editeur : Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

This volume presents a concise but detailed exposition of the most common mathematical models in population and community ecology. It is intended to demystify ecological models and the mathematics behind them by deriving the models from first principles. The book may be used as a self-teaching tutorial by students, as a primary textbook, or as a supplemental text to a general ecology textbook. The Primer explains in detail basic concepts of exponential and logistic population growth, age structured demography, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation, island biogeography, and, in a chapter new to this edition, succession. Each chapter is graded from simple material that is appropriate for beginning undergraduates to advanced material, which is suited for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Advanced topics include environmental andemographic stochasticity, discrete population growth and chaos, stage structured demography, intraguild predation, nonlinear predator prey isoclines, and passive sampling.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

NICHOLAS J. GOTELLI is Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0878932739
• ISBN 13: 9780878932733
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 225
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible