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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| To the Student | |
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| Exponential Population Growth | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Elements of Population Growth | |
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| Projecting Population Size | |
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| Calculating Doubling Time | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Continuous versus Discrete Population Growth | |
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| Environmental Stochasticity | |
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| Demographic Stochasticity | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Pheasants of Protection Island | |
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| Grizzly Bears of Yellowstone National Park | |
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| Problems | |
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| Logistic Population Growth | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Density Dependence | |
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| Carrying Capacity | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Time Lags | |
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| Discrete Population Growth | |
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| Random Variation in Carrying Capacity | |
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| Periodic Variation in Carrying Capacity | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Song Sparrows of Mandarte Island | |
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| Population Dynamics of Subtidal Ascidians | |
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| Logistic Growth and the Collapse of Fisheries Populations | |
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| Problems | |
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| Age-Structured Population Growth | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Exponential Growth with Age Structure | |
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| Notation for Ages and Age Classes | |
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| The Fecundity Schedule [b(x)] | |
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| Fecundity Schedules in Nature | |
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| The Survivorship Schedule [l(x)] | |
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| Survival Probability [g(x)] | |
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| Survivorship Schedules in Nature | |
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| Calculating Net Reproductive Rate (R[subscript 0]) | |
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| Calculating Generation Time (G) | |
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| Calculating Intrinsic Rate of Increase (r) | |
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| Describing Population Age Structure | |
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| Calculating Survival Probabilities for Age Classes (P[subscript i]) | |
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| Calculating Fertilities for Age Classes (F[subscript i]) | |
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| The Leslie Matrix | |
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| Stable and Stationary Age Distributions | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Derivation of the Euler Equation | |
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| Reproductive Value | |
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| Life History Strategies | |
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| Stage- and Size-Structured Population Growth | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Life Tables for Ground Squirrels | |
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| Stage Projection Matrices for Teasel | |
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| Problems | |
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| Metapopulation Dynamics | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Metapopulations and Extinction Risk | |
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| A Model of Metapopulation Dynamics | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| The Island-Mainland Model | |
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| Internal Colonization | |
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| The Rescue Effect | |
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| Other Variations | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| The Checkerspot Butterfly | |
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| Heathland Carabid Beetles | |
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| Problems | |
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| Competition | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Competitive Interactions | |
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| The Lotka-Volterra Competition Model | |
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| Competition Coefficients | |
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| Equilibrium Solutions | |
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| The State Space | |
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| Graphical Solutions to the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model | |
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| The Principle of Competitive Exclusion | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Intraguild Predation | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Competition between Intertidal Sandflat Worms | |
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| The Shape of a Gerbil Isocline | |
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| Problems | |
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| Predation | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Modeling Prey Population Growth | |
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| Modeling Predator Population Growth | |
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| Equilibrium Solutions | |
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| Graphical Solutions to the Lotka-Volterra Predation Model | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Incorporating a Victim Carrying Capacity | |
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| Modifying the Functional Response | |
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| The Paradox of Enrichment | |
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| Incorporating Other Factors in the Victim Isocline | |
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| Modifying the Predator Isocline | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Population Cycles of Hare and Lynx | |
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| Population Cycles of Red Grouse | |
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| Problems | |
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| Island Biogeography | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| The Species-Area Relationship | |
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| The Habitat Diversity Hypothesis | |
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| The Equilibrium Model of Island Biogeography | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Nonlinear Immigration and Extinction Curves | |
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| Area and Distance Effects | |
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| The Rescue Effect | |
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| The Target Effect | |
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| The Passive Sampling Model | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Insects of Mangrove Islands | |
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| Breeding Birds of Eastern Wood | |
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| Breeding Birds of the Pymatuning Lake Islands | |
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| Problems | |
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| Succession | |
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| Model Presentation and Predictions | |
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| Three Verbal Models of Succession | |
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| Matrix Models of Succession | |
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| Setting the Stages | |
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| Specifying the Time Step | |
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| Constructing the Stage Vector | |
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| Constructing the Transition Matrix | |
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| Loop Diagrams | |
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| Projecting Community Change | |
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| Determining the Equilibrium | |
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| Stage Vectors and Transition Matrices: Two Interpretations | |
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| Model Assumptions | |
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| Model Variations | |
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| Successional Models Revisited | |
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| Facilitation Model | |
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| Inhibition model | |
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| Tolerance Model | |
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| Model Comparisons | |
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| Other Models | |
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| Empirical Examples | |
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| Markovian Dynamics of Desert Vegetation | |
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| Models of Coral Reef Succession | |
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| Problems | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Constructing a Population Model | |
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| The Derivative: The Velocity of a Population | |
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| Modeling Population Growth | |
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| Solving for the Equilibrium | |
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| Analyzing the Stability of the Equilibrium | |
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| The Integral: Projecting Population Growth | |
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| Solutions to Problems | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Literature Cited | |
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| Index | |