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 New Approaches and Synthesis
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Edited By
Naomi Cappuccino, University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
Peter Price, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.A.
Description
An understanding of the dynamics of populations is critically important to ecologists, evolutionary biologists, wildlife managers, foresters,
and many other biologists. This edited treatise brings together the latest research on how populations fluctuate in size, the factors
that drive these changes, and the theories explaining how populations are regulated. The book also includes specific chapters dealing
with insects of economic importance.
Audience
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and researchers in ecology, forestry, evolutionary biology, and theoretical and mathematical
biology. Institutions with strong programs in these areas are also likely buyers.This book should do well with members of the Ecological
Society of America, and the American Naturalist Society, as well as other groups.
Contents
Introduction.N. Cappuccino, Novel Approaches to the Study of Population Dynamics.
Observation and Comparative Approaches:
P. Turchin, Population Regulation: Old Arguments and a New Synthesis.A.F. Hunter, Ecology, Life History and Phylogeny
of Outbreak and Nonoutbreak Species.N. Cappuccino, H. Damman, and J.-F. Dubuc, Spatial Behavior and Temporal Dynamics of Outbreak
and Nonoutbreak Species.M.J. Auerbach, E.F. Connor, and S. Mopper, Minor Miners and Major Miners: Population Dynamics of Leaf-Mining
Insects.
Mechanisms and Processes of Population Dynamics:
R.F. Denno and M.A. Peterson, Density-Dependent Dispersal and
its Consequences for Population Dynamics.S. Harrison and N. Cappuccino, Using Density-Manipulation Experiments to Study Population
Regulation.I. Hanski and M. Kuussaari, Butterfly Metapopulation Dynamics.S.J. Walde, Internal Dynamics and Metapopulations:
Experimental Tests with Predator-Prey Systems.J. Roland and P.D. Taylor, Herbivore-Natural Enemy Interactions in Fragmented and
Continuous Forests.G. Dwyer, Simple Models and Complex Interactions.J.H. Myers and L. Rothman, Field Experiments to Study
Regulation of Fluctuating Populations.M.C. Rossiter, Impact of Life History Evolution on Population Dynamics: Predicting the
Presence of Maternal Effects.
Case Studies:
C. Solbreck, Long-Term Population Dynamics of a Seed-Feeding Insect in a Landscape
Perspective.T. Ohgushi, Adaptive Behavior Produces Stability in Herbivorous Lady Beetle Populations.P.W. Price, T.P. Craig,
and H. Roininen, Working Toward Theory on Galling Sawfly Population Dynamics.J.D. Reeve, M.P. Ayres, and P.L. Lorio, Host
Suitability, Predation, and Bark Beetle Population Dynamics.G.E. Belovsky and A. Joern, The Dominance of Different Regulating
Factors for Rangeland Grasshoppers.
Conclusion:
P.W. Price and M.D. Hunter, Novelty and Synthesis in the Development of
Population Dynamics.
Subject Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 429 pages, publication date: AUG-1995
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-159270-7
ISBN-10: 0-12-159270-7
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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