Description: Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Russell Lande, Steinar Engen, Bernt-Erik Saether Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780198525257, 978-0198525257 Synopsis All populations fluctuate stochastically, creating a risk of extinction that does not exist in deterministic models, with fundamental consequences for both pure and applied ecology. This book provides the most comprehensive introduction to stochastic population dynamics, combining classical background material with a variety of modern approaches, including new and previously unpublished results by the authors, illustrated with examples from bird and mammal populations, and insect communities. Demographic and environmental stochasticity are introduced with statistical methods for estimating them from field data. The long-run growth rate of a population is explained and extended to include age structure with both deomgraphic and environmental stochasticity. Diffusion approximations facilitate the analysis of extinction dynamics and the duration of the final decline. Methods are developed for estimating delayed density dependence from population time series using life history data. Metapopulation viability and the spatial scale of population fluctuations and extinction risk are analyzed. Stochastic dynamics and statistical uncertainty in population parameters are incorporated in Population Viability Analysis and strategies for sustainable harvesting. Statistics of species diversity measures and species abundance distributions are described, with implications for rapid assessments of biodiversity, and methods are developed for partitioning species diversity into additive components. Analysis of the stochastic dynamics of a tropical butterfly community in space and time indicates that most of the variance in the species abundance distribution is due to ecological heterogeneity among species, so that real communities are far from neutral.
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Book Title: Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
Author: Russell Lande, Bernt-Erik Saether, Steinar Engen
Publication Name: Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Geology, Science, Biology, Mathematics
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 395 g
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
