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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Elementary Population Dynamics | |
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| Density Independence: The Exponential Equation | |
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| Density Dependence | |
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| The Logistic Equation | |
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| The Yield-Density Relationship | |
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| Density Dependence and Mortality: Thinning Laws | |
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| Density Dependence in Discrete Time Models | |
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| Projection Matrices: Structured Models | |
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| Elementary Age-Structured Population Projection Matrices | |
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| Non-Age Structure: Stage Projection Matrices | |
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| Eigenvectors, Reproductive Value, Sensitivity, and Elasticity | |
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| Density Dependence in Structured Populations | |
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| Density Dependence in a Simple Age-Structured Model | |
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| Density Dependence in Size-Distributed Populations | |
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| Density Dependence in a Stage-Structured Model | |
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| Appendix: Basic Matrix Manipulations | |
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| Matrix Multiplication | |
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| Matrix Addition and Subtraction | |
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| The Identity Matrix | |
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| The Determinant of a Matrix | |
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| Applications of Simple Population Models | |
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| Life History Analysis | |
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| Investment in Survivorship versus Reproduction: The r-K Continuum | |
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| The Cost of Reproduction | |
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| Optimal Reproductive Schedules | |
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| Applications of Population Projection Matrices | |
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| The Dall's Mountain Sheep: A Static Life Table | |
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| Palo de Mayo: A Dynamic Life Table | |
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| Population Viability Analysis | |
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| Demography of Invasive and Native Plant Populations | |
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| A Closer Look at the "Dynamics" in Population Dynamics | |
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| Intuitive Ideas of Equilibrium and Stability | |
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| Eigenvalues: A Key Concept in Dynamic Analysis | |
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| Basic Concepts of Equilibrium and Stability in One-Dimensional Maps | |
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| The One-Dimensional Map | |
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| Stability and Equilibrium in the Logistic Map | |
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| Basins of Attraction in the Logistic Map | |
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| Structural Stability | |
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| Bifurcation Diagrams | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Patterns and Dynamics in Space | |
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| The Poisson Distribution | |
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| Point Pattern Analysis and the Question of Scale | |
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| Mechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation: Principles of Reaction/Diffusion | |
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| Mechanisms of Spatial Pattern Formation: Biological Causes | |
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| Metapopulations | |
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| Assumptions of Metapopulation Models | |
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| The Rescue Effect and Propagule Rain | |
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| Appendix: Data for Exercises 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 | |
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| Predator-Prey (Consumer-Resource) Interactions | |
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| Predator-Prey Interactions: First Principles | |
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| Density Dependence | |
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| Functional Response | |
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| Functional Response and Density Dependence Together | |
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| Paradoxes in Applications of Predator-Prey Theory | |
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| Predator-Prey Dynamics: A Graphical Approach | |
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| Predator-Prey Interactions in Discrete Time | |
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| Disease Ecology | |
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| Direct Disease Transmission | |
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| Indirect Transmission | |
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| Competition | |
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| Competition: First Principles | |
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| Isocline Analysis of the Lotka-Volterra Competition Equations | |
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| Niches and Competitive Coexistence and Exclusion | |
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| The Competitive Production Principle: Applications of Competition Theory to Agriculture | |
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| Resource Competition | |
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| Facilitation and Mutualism | |
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| What This Book Was About | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |