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Price: $95.95
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Sale: $79.38
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ian Newton
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 598
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Publication Date: 1998-09-09
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Reading Level: 597
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Description: This book meets the demand for a comprehensive introduction to understanding the processes of population limitation. Recognized world-wide as a respected biologist and communicator, Dr. Ian Newton has now written a clear and detailed treatise on local scale population limiting factors in birds. It is based almost entirely on results from field studies, though it is set in a contemporary theoretical framework. The 16 chapters fall under three major section headings: Behavior and Density Regulation; Natural Limiting Factors; and Human Impacts. Population Limitation in Birds serves as a needed resource expanding on Dr. David Lacks research in this area of ornithology in the 1950s. It includes numerous line diagrams and beautiful illustrations by acclaimed wildlife artist Keith Brockie.
Key Features
* Provides a sorely needed introduction to a long-established core subject in ornithology
* Focuses on local scale factors
* Written by a well-known biologist and effective communicator
* Includes numerous line diagrams and beautiful illustrations by acclaimed wildlife artist Keith Brockie
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Price: $57.50
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Sale: $14.47
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Laurence D. Mueller::Amitabh Joshi
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.88
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Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by such agencies as competition and predation--should grow geometrically. How is order in nature maintained in the face of the seemingly disorderly struggle for existence? In this book, Laurence Mueller and Amitabh Joshi examine current theories of population stability and show how recent laboratory research on model populations--particularly blowflies, Tribolium, and Drosophila--contributes to our understanding of population dynamics and the evolution of stability. The authors review the general theory of population stability and critically analyze techniques for inferring whether a given population is in balance or not. They then show how rigorous empirical research can reveal both the proximal causes of stability (how populations are regulated and maintained at an equilibrium, including the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors) and its ultimate, mostly evolutionary causes. In the process, they describe experimental studies on model systems that address the effects of age-structure, inbreeding, resource levels, and population structure on the stability and persistence of populations. The discussion incorporates the authors' own findings on the evolution of population stability in Drosophila. They go on to relate laboratory work to studies of animals in the wild and to develop a general framework for relating the life history and ecology of a species to its population dynamics. This accessible, finely written illustration of how carefully designed experiments can improve theory will have tremendous value for all ecologists and evolutionary biologists.
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Price: $309.00
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Sale: $250.71
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: W. Bond::B.W. van Wilgen
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 570
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Publication Date: 1995-12-31
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However, despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of research on plant population biology in relation to fire, until now there have only been limited attempts at a coherent conceptual synthesis of the field for use by students or researchers.
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Price: $187.00
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Sale: $143.50
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James R. Carey
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.5248072
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Publication Date: 1993-02-04
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This is the first book to comprehensively apply the fundamental tools and concepts of demography to a nonhuman species. It provides clear and concise treatment of standard demographic techniques such as life table analysis and population projection; introduces models that have seldom appeared outside of the demographic literature including the multiple decrement life table, the intrinsic sex ratio, and multiregional demography; and addresses demographic problems that are unique to nonhuman organisms such as the demographic theory of social insects and harvesting techniques applied to insect mass rearing. The book also contains a synthesis of fundamental properties of population such as momentum and convergence to the stable age distribution, with a section on the unity of demographic models, and appendices detailing analytical methods used to quantify and model the data gathered in a ground-breaking study on the mortality experience of 1.2 million medflies. Based on an insect demography course at the University of California, Davis, the book is intended for practicing entomologists, population biologists, and ecologists for use in research or as a graduate text.
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Price: $109.00
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Sale: $97.59
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William L. Thompson::Gary C. White::Charles Gowan
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 596.1788
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Publication Date: 1998-08-15
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Reading Level: 365
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Description: This book is written to serve as a general reference for biologists and resource managers with relatively little statistical training. It focuses on both basic concepts and practical applications to provide professionals with the tools needed to assess monitoring methods that can detect trends in populations. It combines classical finite population sampling designs with population enumeration procedures in a unified approach for obtaining abundance estimates for species of interest. The statistical information is presented in practical, easy-to-understand terminology.
Key Features
* Presented in practical, easy-to-understand terminology
* Serves as a general reference for biologists and resource managers
* Provides the tools needed to detect trends in populations
* Introduces a unified approach for obtaining abundance estimates
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Price: $139.00
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Sale: $83.43
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.52480151
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Publication Date: 1997-01-31
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Reading Level: 656
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Description: This indispensable guide provides a comprehensive treatment of the construction and analysis of models for age- and stage-classified populations. It covers methods based on projection matrices, delay-differential equations, and partial-differential equations. The book addresses both field and laboratory studies on a wide range of specific ecosystems and taxa, as well as problems in evolution, genetics, conservation biology and epidemiology.
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Price: $151.50
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Sale: $151.50
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.5247
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Publication Date: 1992-11-30
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: 'Succession' is the term used to describe the phenomenon of changes in vegetational types in both time and space. The subject of the colonization and exploitation of 'new' areas by plants is a key one in ecology and this book summarizes the theoretical arguments currently raging about the topic.
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Price: $179.00
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Sale: $152.15
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.88
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Publication Date: 1996-12-31
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Reading Level: 300
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Description: The study of rare species has long fascinated biologists. Rare and common species may differ in body size, dispersal, reproduction and many other respects. The Biology of Rarity reviews documented patterns of such differences, and considers the methodological difficulties plaguing their interpretation. This book provides an unusually wide ranging picture of how patterns of species differences can be maintained.
The authors consider the potential roles of community assembly rules and speciation in biasing the set of species that become rare, of extinction in `editing' that set, and the potential for changes in ecology, genetics and evolution to transform the characteristics of rare species over time. The potential role of phylogenetic comparisons in disentangling these processes is considered, along with potential applications to conservation biology.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $49.99
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lee-Ann C. Hayek::Martin A. Buzas
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.5248072
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Publication Date: 1996-12-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: A user-friendly primer to the essential techniques of quantitative field ecology, or paleoecology, integrating the intuitive approach of the field researcher with the rational analytical tools of the statistician. Designed as a comprehensive introduction and handy methodological reference for students and professionals alike, this book is filled with lucid explanations, real-world examples, practice problem sets, more than one hundred illustrations and tables, and many applications to research issues of current concern.
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Price: $298.00
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Sale: $298.00
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bogumila Jedrzejewska::Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 596.153
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Publication Date: 1998-09-02
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Reading Level: 450
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Description: Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated ecologists.
This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of interrelationships, and shows them against the background of their biotic and abiotic settings. It is based on long-term research conducted in the best preserved woodland of Europe's temperate zone. The role of predation, whether limiting or regulating prey (ungulate, rodent, shrew, bird, and amphibian) populations, is quantified and compared to parts played by other factors: climate, food resources for prey, and availability of other potential resources for predators.
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