Modeling populations of adaptive individuals / Steven F. Railsback and Bret C. Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Railsback, Steven F. (Steven Floyd), 1957- author.

Harvey, Bret C., 1958- author.

Series:

Monographs in population biology ; 63.

Princeton scholarship online.

Monographs in population biology ; 63

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population biology--Mathematical models.

Population biology.

Ecology.

Adaptation (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviours. Yet until now, we have lacked effective and flexible methods for modelling such dynamics. Traditional ecological models become impractical with the inclusion of behaviour, and the optimization approaches of behavioural ecology cannot be used when future conditions are unpredictable due to feedbacks from the behaviour of other individuals. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to state- and prediction-based theory, or SPT, a powerful new approach to modelling trade-off behaviours in contexts such as individual-based population models where feedbacks and variability make optimization impossible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Adaptive Individuals and Population Ecology

2. Case Study: Modeling Trout Population Response to River Management

3. Introduction to State- and Prediction- Based Theory

4. A First Example: Forager Patch Selection

5. A Second Example: Vertical Migration and Reproductive Effort in Daphnia

6. Example Three: Temporal Patterns in Limpet Foraging

7. Example Four: Facultative Anadromy in Salmonid Fishes

8. Guidance for Using State- and Prediction- Based Theory

9. Testing and Refining State- and Prediction- Based Theory

10. Building Model Credibility

11. Empirical Research on Populations of Adaptive Individuals

12. Conclusions and Outlook

References

Index

MONOGRAPHS IN POPULATION BIOLOGY

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 17, 2020).

ISBN:

9780691195377

0691195374

OCLC:

1111640709