A common tendency in the field of population ecology has been to
overlook individual differences by treating populations as
homogeneous units; conversely, in behavioral ecology the tendency
has been to concentrate on how individual behavior is shaped by
evolutionary forces, but not on how this behavior affects
population dynamics. Adam Lomnicki and others aim to remedy this
one-sidedness by showing that the overall dynamical behavior of
populations must ultimately be understood in terms of the behavior
of individuals. Professor Lomnicki's wide-ranging presentation of
this approach includes simple mathematical models aimed at
describing both the origin and consequences of individual variation
among plants and animals.
The author contends that further progress in population ecology
will require taking into account individual differences other than
sex, age, and taxonomic affiliation--unequal access to resources,
for instance. Population ecologists who adopt this viewpoint may
discover new answers to classical questions of population ecology.
Partly because it uses a variety of examples from many taxonomic
groups, this work will appeal not only to population ecologists but
to ecologists in general.
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