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Regulation and stabilization paradigms in population ecology
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ISBN: 041257540X 9780412575402 Year: 1996 Publisher: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall

Ecological census techniques : A handbook.
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ISBN: 0521478154 052147244X 9780521478151 9780521472449 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Virtually any exercise in ecology will require some knowledge of the techniques for carrying out a census of population numbers. This practical text outlines clearly, with worked examples, the main techniques used by field ecologists to enumerate plants and animals. Each taxonomic group is treated separately, with detailed descriptions of appropriate census methods; their advantages, disadvantages and biases. Techniques for measuring a wide range of environmental variables are also included. The final chapter lists the 20 most common censusing sins. Concise yet comprehensive, this book provides a unique overview of the most important methods for those working on field studies in population and behavioural ecology and conservation biology at all levels, from the beginner to the practising professional.

Structured-population models in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems.
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ISBN: 0412072718 1461559731 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York : Chapman and Hall,

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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.

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Models --- Aquatic communities --- Animal population --- plant population --- population dynamics --- population structure --- Biological competition --- Population distribution --- Daphnia --- Tribolium --- Applied Ecology. --- Mathematical and Computational Biology. --- Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- General ecology and biosociology --- Population biology --- 574.3 --- 574.5 --- 591.526 --- 591.526 Population density of an animal species. Reproduction rate. Birth rate. Destruction rate. Death rate --- Population density of an animal species. Reproduction rate. Birth rate. Destruction rate. Death rate --- 574.3 Populations and environment. Population dynamics --- Populations and environment. Population dynamics --- 574.5 Hydrobiology. Aquatic biocoenoses and ecosystems. Food chains --- Hydrobiology. Aquatic biocoenoses and ecosystems. Food chains --- Mathematical models --- Applied ecology. --- Ecology . --- Evolutionary biology. --- Biomathematics. --- Ecology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Biology --- Mathematics --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Ecology --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Calathea ovandensis

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