Population cycles : the case for trophic interactions / edited by Alan Berryman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berryman, A. A. (Alan Andrew), 1937-

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal populations.

Animal ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For over sixty years, understanding the causes of multiannual cycles in animal populations has been a central issue in ecology. This book brings together ten of the leaders in this field to examine the major hypotheses and recent evidence in the field, and to establish that trophic interactions are an important factor in driving at least some of the major regular oscillations in animal populations that have long puzzled ecologists.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1 Population Cycles: Causes and Analysis; 2 The Role of Insect Parasitoids in Population Cycles of the Spruce Needleminer in Denmark; 3 Population Cycles of Small Rodents in Fennoscandia; 4 Understanding the Snowshoe Hare Cycle through Large-scale Field Experiments; 5 Evidence for Predator-Prey Cycles in a Bark Beetle; 6 Parasitic Worms and Population Cycles of Red Grouse; 7 Population Cycles of the Larch Budmoth in Switzerland; 8 Population Cycles of the Autumnal Moth in Fennoscandia

9 Population Cycles: Inferences from Experimental, Modeling, and Time Series Approaches10 Do Trophic Interactions Cause Population Cycles?; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756175-6

1-280-83498-6

9786610834983

0-19-534973-3

OCLC:

476257682