Population Ecology of Individuals. (MPB-25), Volume 25 Adam Łomnicki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Łomnicki, Adam, 1935-

Series:

Monographs in population biology ; 25.

Monographs in population biology ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population biology.

Ecology.

Écologie.

Biologie des populations.

Ecología.

Population Dynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 223 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A common tendency in the field of population ecology has been to overlook individual differences by treating populations as homogeneous units; conversely, in behavioral ecology the tendency has been to concentrate on how individual behavior is shaped by evolutionary forces, but not on how this behavior affects population dynamics. Adam Lomnicki and others aim to remedy this one-sidedness by showing that the overall dynamical behavior of populations must ultimately be understood in terms of the behavior of individuals. Professor Lomnicki's wide-ranging presentation of this approach includes simple mathematical models aimed at describing both the origin and consequences of individual variation among plants and animals. The author contends that further progress in population ecology will require taking into account individual differences other than sex, age, and taxonomic affiliation--unequal access to resources, for instance. Population ecologists who adopt this viewpoint may discover new answers to classical questions of population ecology. Partly because it uses a variety of examples from many taxonomic groups, this work will appeal not only to population ecologists but to ecologists in general.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Basic Models of Population Ecology and Intrapopulation Variability

CHAPTER TWO. Individual Variation in Resource Partitioning and Population Dynamics

CHAPTER THREE. Individual Variation of Body Weight In Plant and Animal Populations

CHAPTER FOUR. Individual Differences and Hereditary Variation

CHAPTER FIVE. Age and Overlapping Generations

CHAPTER SIX. The Mechanism of Contest Competition

CHAPTER SEVEN. Self-regulation of Population Size

CHAPTER EIGHT. Emigration and Unequal Resource Partitioning

CHAPTER NINE. Field and Laboratory Populations of Animals

CHAPTER TEN. Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity and Stability of Ecological Systems

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691084718

0691084718

9780691209616

0691209618

OCLC:

1227050165