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Wildlife population growth rates

Wildlife population growth rates

Richard M. Sibly, Jim Hone, Tim H. Clutton-Brock

370 pages, parution le 04/08/2003

Résumé

What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? This book takes a fresh approach to some of the classic questions in ecology. Despite great progress in the twentieth century much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers to these questions.

The methods described and deployed in this book point the way forward. The core message of the book is that the key insights come from understanding what determines population growth rate, and that application of this approach will make ecology a more predictive science. Topics covered include population regulation, density-dependence, the ecological niche, resource and interference competition, habitat fragmentation and the ecological effects of environmental stress, together with applications to conservation biology, wildlife management, human demography and ecotoxicology.

Contents

  • Introduction to wildlife population growth rates
  • Population growth rate and its determinants: an overview
  • Demographic, mechanistic and density-dependent determinants of population growth rate: a case study in an avian predator
  • Estimating density dependence in time series of age-structured populations
  • Pattern of variation in avian population growth rates
  • Determinants of human population growth
  • Two complementary paradigms for analyzing population dynamics
  • Complex numerical responses to top-down and bottom-up processes in vertebrate populations
  • The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators
  • Populations in variable environments: the effect of variability in a species' primary resource
  • Trophic interactions and population growth rates: describing patterns and identifying mechanisms
  • Behavioural models of population growth rates: implications for conservation and prediction
  • Comparative ungulate dynamics: the devil is in the detail
  • Population growth rate as a basis for ecological risk assessment of toxic chemicals
  • Population growth rates: issues and an application
  • References
  • Glossary of abbreviations
  • Index

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Éditeur(s) Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s) Richard M. Sibly, Jim Hone, Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Parution 04/08/2003
Nb. de pages 370
Format 15 x 23
Couverture Broché
Poids 620g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780521533478
ISBN13 978-0-521-53347-8

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