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Plant and animal populations : methods in demography / Thomas A. Ebert.
Holman Biotech Commons Oversize QH352 .E24 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ebert, Thomas A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population biology--Methodology.
- Population biology.
- Plant populations.
- Animal populations.
- Demography.
- Population Dynamics.
- Plants.
- Animals.
- Medical Subjects:
- Demography.
- Population Dynamics.
- Plants.
- Animals.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Academic Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- The analysis of animal and plant life cycles is central to the management and conservation of species. Understanding of the evolution of life history characteristics depends upon traits such as life span, schedules of births and death, and growth and survival estimates. This text/reference addresses the ever-increasing challenges of documenting population demographic changes, and will serve as a bridge from introductory ecology to both applied and theoretical demography. It emphasizes the analysis of population data taken from a wide variety of organisms, including terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals found in habitats from equatorial rain forests to the arctic tundra The book also contains computer programs that are written in BASIC and include tools for population projection, matrix analysis using both sensitivity and elasticity, individual growth and survival models, and the analysis of size-frequency distributions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0122287401
- OCLC:
- 39917564
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