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This volume describes the biology of the life cycle (age, size, development stage, for example) and follows the transitions of individuals through stages in the life cycle (survival, growth, development, and reproduction). They are an alternative to models that describe populations in terms of total numbers or biomass. Such models, which depend much more intensively on computer firepower than aggregate or logistic models, have taken a central place in ecological investigations in the last decade. Making appropriate assumptions about their parameters, the ecologist can describe constant environments, time-varying environments, density-dependent populations, and species-species or species-resource interactions with these models.

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Author:   Shripad Tuljapurkar ,  Hal Caswell
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   2.000kg
ISBN:  

9780412072710

ISBN 10:   0412072718
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   31 January 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I Theory and Methods.- 1 Structured-Population Models: Many Methods, a Few Basic Concepts.- 2 Matrix Methods for Population Analysis.- 3 Stochastic Matrix Models.- 4 Delay-Differential Equations for Structured Populations.- 5 A Gentle Introduction to Physiologically Structured Population Models.- 6 Nonlinear Matrix Equations and Population Dynamics.- II Applications.- 7 The Relative “Importance” of Life-History Stages to Population Growth: Prospective and Retrospective Analyses.- 8 Life-History Evolution and Extinction.- 9 Population Dynamics of Tribolium.- 10 Evolutionary Dynamics of Structured Populations.- 11 The Effect of Overlapping Generations and Population Structure on Gene-Frequency Clines.- 12 Dynamics of Populations with Density-Dependent Recruitment and Age Structure.- 13 Models for Marine Ecosystems.- 14 Frequency Response of a Simple Food-Chain Model with Time-Delayed Recruitment: Implications for Abiotic-Biotic Coupling.- 15 Stochastic Demography for Conservation Biology.- 16 Sensitivity Analysis of Structured-Population Models for Management and Conservation.- 17 Nonlinear Ergodic Theorems and Symmetric versus Asymmetric Competition.- 18 The Evolution of Age-Structured Marriage Functions: It Takes Two to Tango.- 19 Inverse Problems and Structured-Population Dynamics.- 20 Nonlinear Models of Structured Populations: Dynamic Consequences of Stage Structure and Discrete Sampling.- 21 Multispecies Lottery Competition: A Diffusion Analysis.- About the Authors.

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