عنوان

Theories of Populations in Biological Communities

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3642665268

(Number (ISBN

3642665284

(Number (ISBN

9783642665264

(Number (ISBN

9783642665288

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b548365

Title Proper

Theories of Populations in Biological Communities

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1977

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(x, 144 pages)

Series Title

Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis,, 20.

Text of Note

1. Population Growth and Fitness --;1.1 Density-Regulated Population Growth --;1.2 Genetical Models of Population Growth --;1.3 Competition and Bacterial Growth in Chemostats --;1.4 Reproductive Effort of Populations --;1.5 An Evolutionary Dichotomy --;2. Interactions Between Species --;2.1 One-Prey-One-Predator Models --;2.2 Two Species Competing for Resources --;2.3 Mutualistic Pairs of Species --;2.4 Linear Models of Food Webs --;2.5 Competition Models with Many Species --;2.6 Simple Food Web Models --;3. The Niche and Limiting Similarity --;3.1 The Concept of the Niche --;3.2 Niche Dimensions --;3.3 The Formulation of Competition Coefficients --;3.4 Limiting Similarity --;3.5 The Evolution of Competing Species --;3.6 Components of the Niche --;3.7 Evidence from Nature --;4. Geographically-Structured Populations and Migration-Extinction Equilibria --;4.1 Migration Pressure and Competition --;4.2 Migration Between Identical Habitat Patches --;4.3 Stochastic Extinction of Populations --;4.4 Fugitive Equilibria --;4.5 The Theory of Island Biogeography --;5. The Concept of Biological Communities --;References.

Text of Note

Therefore, in addition to theoretical population biology (including some original models) the book also discusses observational data from nature to show how the theoretical models give new insight and how observations give rise to new theoretical thought.

Ecology.

Life sciences.

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Book number

by Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel.

Feddy B Christiansen

Tom M Fenchel

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[Book]

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