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Title: Complex Population Dynamics : A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis by Peter Turchin ISBN: 0-691-09021-1 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential work for professional
Comment: Politicians often say things like, "Let's not follow each other off a cliff like lemmings," but it's not true that lemmings really follow each other off a cliff in nature. What IS true is that some species of lemmings have huge populations some years, and become almost extinct in other years.
Why does the population of lemmings vary so much? It turns out that it has to do with the interaction of the lemmings with their food supply and their predators. When there are a lot of lemmings, then they eat all the edible vegetation and begin starving, and their predators, like weasels, thrive and kill the lemmings off, so that lemmings almost disappear. With no lemmings around, the food can grow again unmolested, and predators, having nothing to eat, die off themselves. That leaves the field clear for lemmings to thrive, and their populations grow, repeating the cycle every three to five years.
Peter Turchin formalizes all this for a wide variety of animal species -- from the Larch budmouth to the southern pine beetle, from the red grouse to the snowshoe hare. He develops mathematical models for the populations of all these species and tests the models with known data time series.
This landmark book is a must for serious professionals involved in ecology and other biological and natural sciences.
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Title: Population Ecology : First Principles by John H. Vandermeer, Deborah E. Goldberg ISBN: 0691114412 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 24 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation by Russell Lande, Steinar Engen, Bernt-Erik Saether, Bernt-Erik Sther ISBN: 0198525257 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Model Selection and Multi-Model Inference by Kenneth P. Burnham, David Anderson ISBN: 0387953647 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 12 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Diffusion and Ecological Problems by Akira Okubo, Simon A. Levin ISBN: 0387986766 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: Consumer-Resource Dynamics by William W. Murdoch, Cheryl J. Briggs, Roger M. Nisbet ISBN: 0691006571 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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