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xvi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-359) and indexes. |
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Contents: Preface -- pt. 1. Theoretical Bases of Population Dynamics -- 1. Basic properties and structure of population processes -- 1.2. Persistence of populations -- 1.3. Statistical requirements for population persistence -- 1.4. Regulation of populations -- 1.5. Statistical equilibrium state -- 1.6. Ecological mechanism underlying population regulation -- 1.7. Effects of density-independent factors -- 1.8. Concept of density dependence -- 2. Structures and patterns of population processes -- 2.2. Pure density-dependent processes -- 2.3. Origins of second- or higher-order processes -- 2.4. Density-dependent/independent processes -- 2.5. The Moran effect of density-independent factors: Inter-regional synchrony of population fluctuations -- 3. Statistical analysis of population fluctuations -- 3.2. Analysis of density-dependent structure -- 3.3. Analysis of density-independent perturbation effects -- 3.4. False interpretation of population data -- 3.5. Diagnoses of observed population series -- 3.6. Sampling properties of autocorrelations -- 4. Population process models -- 4.2. The logistic theory -- 4.3. Generalization of the logistic theory -- 4.4. Predator-prey interactions -- 4.5. Simple vs detailed models -- 4.6. Experimental approach to the determination of reproduction curves and surfaces -- pt. 2. Analysis of Classic Cases -- 5. Analysis of the lynx 10-year cycle -- 5.2. Fur-return statistics as an index of lynx abundance -- 5.3. Early theories of the 10-year cycle -- 5.4. Statistical characteristics of the lynx cycle -- 5.5. Review of statistical models of the lynx cycle -- 5.6. The lynx cycle as a nonlinear density-dependent process -- 5.7. Application of nonlinear density-dependent models to the lynx cycle -- 5.8. Nonstationary aspects of the lynx cycle -- 5.9. Discussion -- 6. Snowshoe hare demography -- 6.2. Evidence for the 10-year cycle -- 6.3. Annual changes in demographic parameters -- 6.4. Ecological process determining natality -- 6.5. Cause of body-weight changes during winter -- 6.6. Lagged density dependence in natality -- 6.7. Analysis of mortality -- 6.8. Interaction between predator and prey complexes -- 6.9. Effect of resource depletion on hare population dynamics -- 6.10. Inter-regional synchrony of the population cycles -- 7. Density effects on the dynamics of a single-species population: Utida's experiments on the azuki bean weevil -- 7.2. Reproductive rate in discrete experiment -- 7.3. Analysis of reproductive rate -- 7.4. An interpretation of the logistic law -- 7.5. Effect of resource quantity on density effects -- 7.6. Differential effects of male and female densities -- 7.7. Population dynamics -- 8. Dynamics of a host-parasitoid interaction system: Utida's experimental study -- 8.2. Analysis of system dynamics revealed in the series experiment -- 8.3. Simulation of population dynamics -- 8.4. Analysis of conditional reproduction curves -- 8.5. Analogous fish population dynamics -- 9. Dynamics of the spruce budworm outbreak processes -- 9.2. Life cycle -- 9.3. Notation and terminology -- 9.4. Source of information -- 9.5. Pattern of population fluctuation -- 9.6. Major components of population fluctuation -- 9.7. Analysis of generation survival rate -- 9.8. Analysis of mortality factors among feeding larvae and pupae -- 9.9. Analysis of recruitment rate (Egg/Moth ratio) -- 9.10. Theory of outbreak processes -- Epilogue -- References -- Author index -- Subject index. |
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Index - Uncontrolled: |
Animals Population Dynamics |