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Animal Population Ecology

An Analytical Approach

T Royama author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Apr '21

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The fundamental concepts of animal population are misunderstood; this book draws a road map to the future development of ecology.

Comprises ten selected topics as chapters. Each of these focuses on the subject that is, despite its fundamental importance, still inadequately understood or even misunderstood in the current ecology. A must-have for advanced students of ecology, established ecologists, as well as mathematicians who are interested in ecological applications.Animal population ecology comprises the study of variations, regulation, and interactions of animal populations. This book discusses the fundamental notions and findings of animal populations on which most of the ecological studies are based. In particular, the author selects the logistic law of population growth, the nature of competition, sociality as an antithesis of competition, the mechanism underlying the regulation of populations, predator-prey interaction processes, and interactions among closely related species competing over essential resources. These are the notions that are considered to be well-established facts or principles and are regularly taught at ecology classes or introduced in standard textbooks. However, the author demonstrates that these notions are still inadequately understood, or even misunderstood, creating myths that would misguide ecologists in carrying out their studies. He delves deeply into those notions to reveal their real nature and draws a road map to the future development of ecology.

'This would be a valuable text for quantitative ecology courses. While manageable for interested general readers, its emphasis on mathematical applications and predictive parameters would make it most useful in advanced courses as a source of real-world examples. Mathematicians, too, may find the text valuable for teaching modeling in general, to supplement econometric, demographic, and climate models.' J. Burger, Choice

ISBN: 9781108844420

Dimensions: 234mm x 157mm x 19mm

Weight: 580g

286 pages