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Description: |
viii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-307). |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Models for single populations / Robert M. May -- Bionomic strategies and population parameters / T. R. E. Southwood -- Models for two interacting populations / Robert M. May -- Arthropod predator-prey systems / Michael P. Hassell -- Plant-herbivore systems / Graeme Caughley -- Competition and niche theory / Eric R. Pianka -- Patterns in multi-species communities / Robert M. May -- Island biogeography and the design of natural reserves / Jared M. Diamond -- Succession / Henry S. Horn -- The central problems of sociobiology / Edward O. Wilson -- Palaeontology plus ecology as palaeobiology / Stephen Jay Gould -- Schistosomiasis: a human host-parasite system / Joel E. Cohen -- Man versus pests / Gordon Conway. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Theoretical ecology. Philadelphia : Saunders, ©1976 (OCoLC)755154281 |