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Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Shripad Tuljapurkar

    1. Mountain View Research, Los Altos, USA

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  2. Hal Caswell

    1. Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

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Part of the book series: Population and Community Biology Series (PCBS, volume 18)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Theory and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Structured-Population Models: Many Methods, a Few Basic Concepts

      • Hal Caswell, Roger M. Nisbet, André M. de Roos, Shripad Tuljapurkar
      Pages 3-17

    3. Matrix Methods for Population Analysis

      • Hal Caswell
      Pages 19-58

    4. Stochastic Matrix Models

      • Shripad Tuljapurkar
      Pages 59-87

    5. Delay-Differential Equations for Structured Populations

      • Roger M. Nisbet
      Pages 89-118

    6. A Gentle Introduction to Physiologically Structured Population Models

      • André M. de Roos
      Pages 119-204

    7. Nonlinear Matrix Equations and Population Dynamics

      • J. M. Cushing
      Pages 205-243

  3. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. The Relative “Importance” of Life-History Stages to Population Growth: Prospective and Retrospective Analyses

      • Carol Horvitz, Douglas W. Schemske, Hal Caswell
      Pages 247-271

    3. Life-History Evolution and Extinction

      • Steven Hecht Orzack
      Pages 273-302

    4. Population Dynamics of Tribolium

      • Robert A. Desharnais
      Pages 303-328

    5. Evolutionary Dynamics of Structured Populations

      • Jochen Kumm, Sido D. Mylius, Daniel Promislow
      Pages 329-353

    6. The Effect of Overlapping Generations and Population Structure on Gene-Frequency Clines

      • Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Carol E. Lee, Glenda M. Wardle
      Pages 355-369

    7. Dynamics of Populations with Density-Dependent Recruitment and Age Structure

      • Louis W. Botsford
      Pages 371-408

    8. Models for Marine Ecosystems

      • Eileen E. Hofmann
      Pages 409-432

    9. Frequency Response of a Simple Food-Chain Model with Time-Delayed Recruitment: Implications for Abiotic-Biotic Coupling

      • Bruce C. Monger, Janet M. Fischer, Brian A. Grantham, Vicki Medland, Bing Cai, Kevin Higgins
      Pages 433-450

    10. Stochastic Demography for Conservation Biology

      • C. S. Nations, M. S. Boyce
      Pages 451-469

    11. Sensitivity Analysis of Structured-Population Models for Management and Conservation

      • Philip Dixon, Nancy Friday, Put Ang, Selina Heppell, Mrigesh Kshatriya
      Pages 471-513

    12. Nonlinear Ergodic Theorems and Symmetric versus Asymmetric Competition

      • Kathleen M. Crowe
      Pages 515-532
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About this book

In the summer of 1993, twenty-six graduate and postdoctoral stu­ dents and fourteen lecturers converged on Cornell University for a summer school devoted to structured-population models. This school was one of a series to address concepts cutting across the traditional boundaries separating terrestrial, marine, and freshwa­ ter ecology. Earlier schools resulted in the books Patch Dynamics (S. A. Levin, T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993) and Ecological Time Series (T. M. Powell & J. H. Steele, eds., Chapman and Hall, New York, 1995); a book on food webs is in preparation. Models of population structure (differences among individuals due to age, size, developmental stage, spatial location, or genotype) have an important place in studies of all three kinds of ecosystem. In choosing the participants and lecturers for the school, we se­ lected for diversity-biologists who knew some mathematics and mathematicians who knew some biology, field biologists sobered by encounters with messy data and theoreticians intoxicated by the elegance of the underlying mathematics, people concerned with long-term evolutionary problems and people concerned with the acute crises of conservation biology. For four weeks, these perspec­ tives swirled in discussions that started in the lecture hall and carried on into the sweltering Ithaca night. Diversity mayor may not increase stability, but it surely makes things interesting.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mountain View Research, Los Altos, USA

    Shripad Tuljapurkar

  • Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

    Hal Caswell

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