Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)

In the summer of 1993, twenty-six graduate and postdoctoral stu dents and fourteen lecturers converged on Cornell University for a summer school devoted to structured-population models. This school was one of a series to address concepts cutting across the traditional boundaries separating terrestrial, marine, and freshwa ter ecology. Earlier schools resulted in the books Patch Dynamics (S. A. Levin, T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993) and Ecological Time Series (T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Chapman and Hall, New York, 1995); a book on food webs is in preparation. Models of population structure (differences among individuals due to age, size, developmental stage, spatial location, or genotype) have an important place in studies of all three kinds of ecosystem. In choosing the participants and lecturers for the school, we se lected for diversity-biologists who knew some mathematics and mathematicians who knew some biology, field biologists sobered by encounters with messy data and theoreticians intoxicated by the elegance of the underlying mathematics, people concerned with long-term evolutionary problems and people concerned with the acute crises of conservation biology. For four weeks, these perspec tives swirled in discussions that started in the lecture hall and carried on into the sweltering Ithaca night. Diversity mayor may not increase stability, but it surely makes things interesting."

General

Imprint:	Chapman and Hall
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Population and Community Biology Series, 18
Release date:	1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Shripad Tuljapurkar • Hal Caswell
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	656
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
ISBN-13:	978-0-412-07271-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
LSN:	0-412-07271-8
Barcode:	9780412072710

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