Population regulation and dynamics : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting, held on 23 and 24 May 1990
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Population regulation and dynamics : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting, held on 23 and 24 May 1990
Royal Society, 1990
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"First published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, volume 330 (no. 1257), pages 121-304."--T.p. verso
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Description and Table of Contents
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What are the regulatory factors that, over the long run, prevent a population from realizing its potential for unbounded increase? How do these regulatory factors combine to produce observed patterns in the relative abundance of species? How do these dynamical factors influence the structure of plant and animal communities? And, ultimately, how does all this add up to determine the number of species, either locally or globally? The papers in this volume survey recent advances in studies of these questions, emphasizing the integration of empirical studies with ecological theory. Overall, the book has the deliberate aim of shaping an agenda for research, towards a clearer understanding of how many species there are, and why.
Table of Contents
- The population dynamics of plants, M.J.Crawley
- constancy and regulation in animal populations, I.Hanski
- regulation in fish populations - myth or mirage, J.G.Shepherd and D.H.Cushing
- the effects of within-population heterogeneity on the dynamics of populations and communities, P.Chesson
- population dynamics in spatially complex environments - theory and data, P.Kareiva
- population regulation in human helminth infection, Anne Keymer, et al
- the dynamics of host-parasitoid associations in patchy environments, M.P.Hassell and S.W.Pacala
- complex dynamics in multispecies communities, H.C.J.Godfray and S.P.Blythe
- distinguishing error from chaos in ecological time series, G.Sugihara
- the interplay of population dynamics and the evolutionary process, J.Travis
- the fossil record - a sampler of life's diversity, J.W.Valentine
- spatial patterns of sapling recruitment and the maintenance of tree species diversity in a neotropical forest, S.P.Hubbell, et al
- patterns in the abundance and diversity of species, J.H.Lawton
- how many species and why, R.M.May.
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