Population Ecology: First Principles - Second Edition

John H. Vandermeer

ISBN 10: 0691160317 / ISBN 13: 9780691160313

Editore: Princeton University Press, 2013

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Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. This title provides an accessible mathematical foundation for the advances in ecology. It introduces students to the key literature in the field. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 halftone. 129 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: PSAF; PSTS; PSVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592. . 2013. Second. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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• Titolo: Population Ecology: First Principles - Second Edition
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691160317
• ISBN 13: 9780691160313
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology has advanced dramatically, growing in mathematical and theoretical sophistication. Here, two leading experts present the fundamental quantitative principles of ecology in an accessible yet rigorous way, introducing students to the most basic of all ecological subjects, the structure and dynamics of populations.

John Vandermeer and Deborah Goldberg show that populations are more than simply collections of individuals. Complex variables such as distribution and territory for expanding groups come into play when mathematical models are applied. Vandermeer and Goldberg build these models from the ground up, from first principles, using a broad range of empirical examples, from animals and viruses to plants and humans. They address a host of exciting topics along the way, including age-structured populations, spatially distributed populations, and metapopulations.

This second edition of Population Ecology is fully updated and expanded, with additional exercises in virtually every chapter, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook of its kind.

• Provides an accessible mathematical foundation for the latest advances in ecology


• Features numerous exercises and examples throughout


• Introduces students to the key literature in the field


• The essential textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students


• An online illustration package is available to professors

Informazioni sull?autore

John H. Vandermeer is the Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. Deborah E. Goldberg is the Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.