Wildlife population growth rates

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

370 pages, parution le 04/08/2003

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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.

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