Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 462 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
069100658X
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0691006571
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1400847257
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9780691006581
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9780691006574
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9781400847259
Series Statement:
Monographs in population biology 36
Content:
Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions. Thro
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. Population Dynamics: Observations and Basic Concepts -- 3. Simple Models in Continuous Time -- 4. Simple Models in Discrete Time -- 5. An Introduction to Models with Stage Structure -- 6. Dynamical Effects of Parasitoid Lifestyles -- 7. State-Dependent Decisions -- 8. Competition between Consumer Species -- 9. Implications for Biological Control -- 10. Dynamical Effects of Spatial Processes -- 11. Synthesis and Integration across Systems -- 12. Concluding Remarks
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-449) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Murdoch, William W Consumer-resource dynamics Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2003
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Author information:
Nisbet, Roger M. 1946-
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