Ecology of Populations

Informationen zum Autor Esa Ranta is Professor in Animal Ecology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Klappentext This book aims to bring together analytical population dynamics, random processes and community structure into a common framework. Zusammenfassung This book deals with basic spatial population processes, detailing how a number of fundamental problems relating to the abundance and distribution of organisms can be addressed, for example the effect of environmental variability. It aims to bring together analytical population dynamics, random processes and community structure into a common framework. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Population renewal; 3. Population dynamics in space - the first step; 4. Synchronicity; 5. Order- disorder in space and time; 6. Structured populations; 7. Biodiversity and community structure; 8. Habitat loss; 9. Harvesting and management; 10. Resource matching; 11. Spatial games; 12. Evolutionary and population dynamics; 13. Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Veijo Kaitala, Per Lundberg, Esa Ranta, Esa (University of Helsinki) Lundberg Ranta, Esa Kaitala Ranta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2005
• EAN: 9780521854351
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85435-1
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons; Ecology, Biodiversity and Cons
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)