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Author:   Joan Roughgarden ,  Joan Roughgarden
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 10.00cm , Height: 10.00cm , Length: 10.00cm
Weight:   0.100kg
ISBN:  

9780134420622

ISBN 10:   0134420624
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   29 August 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Getting Comfortable Outdoors. Equilibrium Body Temperature. Climate Space. Living at the Edge. 2. Time for a Byte of Food? Searching Predator. Sit-and-Wait Predator. 3. The Sky's the Limit. The Population Bomb. Keeping Track of the Years. Living Through Good Times and Bad. The Invading Wave. 4. Got'ta Stop Somewhere. Measuring Abundance. Detecting Limits to Growth. The Logistic Model of Limits to Growth. Using the Logistic Model with Data. Comparing the Logistic Model to Other Models. The Logistic Weed. Ecological Stability. Ecological Chaos. 5. Ecology Evolving. Genetic Variation. Natural Selection. Genetic Drift. Mutation and Recombination. Does Evolution Optimize? Natural Selection and Population Size. Natural Selection and Age. Hot Links to Other Evolutionary Topics. 6. Populations at Play. Two-Species Lotka-Volterra Model of Competition. Three-Species Lotka-Volterra Competition. Resource-Based Competition Models. Predator-Prey Interaction. Host-Parasitoid Interaction. Host-Pathogen Interaction. Mutualism and Symbiosis. 7. Ecosystems at Work. Biodiversity in Ecological Communities. Biogeochemical Function in Earth Systems. Index.

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