A Primer of Ecology - Softcover

Gotelli, Nicholas J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878932739 ISBN 13: 9780878932733

Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

This volume presents a concise but detailed exposition of the most common mathematical models in population and community ecology. It is intended to demystify ecological models and the mathematics behind them by deriving the models from first principles. The book may be used as a self-teaching tutorial by students, as a primary textbook, or as a supplemental text to a general ecology textbook. The Primer explains in detail basic concepts of exponential and logistic population growth, age structured demography, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation, island biogeography, and, in a chapter new to this edition, succession. Each chapter is graded from simple material that is appropriate for beginning undergraduates to advanced material, which is suited for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Advanced topics include environmental andemographic stochasticity, discrete population growth and chaos, stage structured demography, intraguild predation, nonlinear predator prey isoclines, and passive sampling.

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From the Publisher:

Contents
Exponential Population Growth

Logistic Population Growth

Age-Structured Population Growth

Metapopulation Dynamics

Competition

Predation

Island Biogeography

Solutions to Problems

Glossary

Literature Cited

Index

Book Description:

This book contains more mathematical detail than many Ecology textbooks, but avoids the jargon and mathematical terminology that can intimidate students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0878932739
• ISBN 13: 9780878932733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 225