Ecology is capturing the popular imagination like never before,
with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and
habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time,
the science of ecology has advanced dramatically, growing in
mathematical and theoretical sophistication. Here, two leading
experts present the fundamental quantitative principles of ecology
in an accessible yet rigorous way, introducing students to the most
basic of all ecological subjects, the structure and dynamics of
populations.
John Vandermeer and Deborah Goldberg show that populations are
more than simply collections of individuals. Complex variables such
as distribution and territory for expanding groups come into play
when mathematical models are applied. Vandermeer and Goldberg build
these models from the ground up, from first principles, using a
broad range of empirical examples, from animals and viruses to
plants and humans. They address a host of exciting topics along the
way, including age-structured populations, spatially distributed
populations, and metapopulations.
This second edition of "Population Ecology" is fully updated and
expanded, with additional exercises in virtually every chapter,
making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook of its
kind.Provides an accessible mathematical foundation for the latest
advances in ecologyFeatures numerous exercises and examples
throughoutIntroduces students to the key literature in the fieldThe
essential textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate
studentsAn online illustration package is available to
professors
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