Ecology of populations / Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg, Veijo Kaitala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ranta, Esa, author.

Lundberg, Per, author.

Kaitala, Veijo, author.

Series:

Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation.

Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population biology.

Ecology.

Spatial behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The theme of the book is the distribution and abundance of organisms in space and time. The core of the book lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and immigration processes, and how environmental variability at different scales affects population dynamics with stochastic processes and spatial structure and shows how elementary analytical tools can be used to understand population fluctuations, synchrony, processes underlying range distributions and community structure and species coexistence. The book also shows how spatial population dynamics models can be used to understand life history evolution and aspects of evolutionary game theory. Although primarily based on analytical and numerical analyses of spatial population processes, data from several study systems are also dealt with.

Contents:

Introduction

Population renewal

Population dynamics in space: the first step

Synchronicity

Order-disorder in space and time

Structured populations

Biodiversity and community structure

Habitat loss

Population harvesting and management

Resource matching

Spatial games

Evolutionary population dynamics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-367) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15505-3

1-280-43177-6

9786610431779

0-511-18369-0

0-511-14697-3

0-511-14595-0

0-511-31187-7

0-511-61075-0

0-511-14639-6

OCLC:

437163481