The Ecological Detective

Ray Hilborn, Marc Mangel

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 28
• The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are ... Lees meer

Spatial Ecology

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 30
• Spatial Ecology addresses the fundamental effects of space on the dynamics of individual species and on the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stabil... Lees meer

Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects

George F Oster, Edward O Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 12
• In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social... Lees meer

Natural Selection in the Wild. (Mpb-21), Volume 21

John A Endler

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 21
• Natural selection is an immense and important subject, yet there have been few attempts to summarize its effects on natural populations, and fewer sti... Lees meer

Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (Mpb-26), Volume 26

David Tilman

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 26
• Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plan... Lees meer

Consumer-Resource Dynamics (Mpb-36)

William W Murdoch, Cheryl J Briggs, Roger M Nisbet

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 36
• Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been sup... Lees meer

Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects. (Mpb-12), Volume 12

George F Oster, Edward O Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 12
• In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social... Lees meer

A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. (Mpb-23), Volume 23

Robert V O'Neill, Donald Lee Deangelis, J B Waide, Timothy F H Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 23
• "Ecosystem" is an intuitively appealing concept to most ecologists, but, in spite of its widespread use, the term remains diffuse and ambiguous. The a... Lees meer

Lectures on Vector Bundles Over Riemann Surfaces. (Mn-6), Volume 6

Robert C Gunning

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology
• The description for this book, Lectures on Vector Bundles over Riemann Surfaces. (MN-6), Volume 6, will be forthcoming. Lees meer

Coexistence in Ecology

Mark A McPeek

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 66
• A comprehensive framework for understanding species coexistence Coexistence is the central concept in community ecology, but an understanding of this ... Lees meer

Adaptive Diversification

Michael Doebeli

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 48
• Understanding the mechanisms driving biological diversity remains a central problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Traditional explanations assu... Lees meer

Some Adaptations of Marsh-Nesting Blackbirds

Gordon H Orians

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 14
• The variety of social systems among the New World blackbirds (Family Icteridae) and the structural simplicity of their foraging environment provide ex... Lees meer

Populations in a Seasonal Environment

Stephen D Fretwell

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 5
• Most organisms live in a seasonal environment. During their life cycles, some species face seasons of cold and heat, aridity and abundant rainfall, mi... Lees meer

Evolutionary Biology of Parasites. (Mpb-15), Volume 15

Peter W Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 15
• In spite of the fact that parasites represent more than half of all living species of plants and animals, their role in the evolution of life on earth... Lees meer

Stability in Model Populations

Laurence D Mueller, Amitabh Joshi

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 31
• Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by suc... Lees meer

The Theory of Ecological Communities

Mark Vellend

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 57
• A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build on... Lees meer

Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals

Steven F Railsback, Bret C Harvey

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 63
• Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviors. Yet unt... Lees meer

Quantitative Viral Ecology

Joshua S Weitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 55
• When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans--such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses... Lees meer

Time in Ecology

Eric Post

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 61
• Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that tim... Lees meer

Competition and the Structure of Bird Communities

Martin L Cody

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 7
• Professor Cody's monograph emphasizes the role of competition at levels above single species populations, and describes how competition, by way of the... Lees meer

Population Ecology of Individuals

Adam Lomnicki

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 25
• A common tendency in the field of population ecology has been to overlook individual differences by treating populations as homogeneous units; convers... Lees meer

Sex Allocation

Stuart West

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 44
• Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of re... Lees meer

Estimates of the Neumann Problem

Peter Charles Greiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology
• The d̄ Neumann problem is probably the most important and natural example of a non-elliptic boundary value problem, arising as it does from the Cauchy... Lees meer

Metacommunity Ecology

Mathew A Leibold, Jonathan M Chase

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs in Population Biology | nr. 59
• Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology--such as birth-death processes, ... Lees meer