Theories of Populations in Biological Communities
When we wrote this book it was, admittedly, flrst of all for the sake of our own enjoyment and enlightenment. We will, however, add our sincerely meant (but rather traditional) hope that it will prove interesting to graduate students, to colleagues and to anyone else, who will bother to read it. The...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1977, 1977
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1977 |
| Series: | Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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