Population Systems A General Introduction /

• Main Authors: Berryman, Alan A. (Author), Kindlmann, Pavel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Ecology.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Biomathematics.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Community & Population Ecology.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

This book is concerned with the general principles and theories of population ecology, based on the idea that the rules governing the dynamics of populations are relatively simple, and that the rich behavior we observe in nature is a consequence of the structure of the system rather than of the comp...

Table of Contents:

• Population Systems
• A Brief Look at Systems in General
• Population Dynamics and an Elementary Model
• Population Regulation and a General Model
• Systems of Interacting Populations
• Interactions Between Two Species
• Interactions in Space
• Interactions Between Many Species (Ecological Communities).