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" Theories of Populations in Biological Communities "
by Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel.
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BL
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728613
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b548365
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by Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel.
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Theories of Populations in Biological Communities\ by Feddy B. Christiansen, Tom M. Fenchel.
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Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1977
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Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis,, 20.
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(x, 144 pages)
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3642665268
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: 3642665284
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: 9783642665264
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: 9783642665288
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| Contents
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1. Population Growth and Fitness --;1.1 Density-Regulated Population Growth --;1.2 Genetical Models of Population Growth --;1.3 Competition and Bacterial Growth in Chemostats --;1.4 Reproductive Effort of Populations --;1.5 An Evolutionary Dichotomy --;2. Interactions Between Species --;2.1 One-Prey-One-Predator Models --;2.2 Two Species Competing for Resources --;2.3 Mutualistic Pairs of Species --;2.4 Linear Models of Food Webs --;2.5 Competition Models with Many Species --;2.6 Simple Food Web Models --;3. The Niche and Limiting Similarity --;3.1 The Concept of the Niche --;3.2 Niche Dimensions --;3.3 The Formulation of Competition Coefficients --;3.4 Limiting Similarity --;3.5 The Evolution of Competing Species --;3.6 Components of the Niche --;3.7 Evidence from Nature --;4. Geographically-Structured Populations and Migration-Extinction Equilibria --;4.1 Migration Pressure and Competition --;4.2 Migration Between Identical Habitat Patches --;4.3 Stochastic Extinction of Populations --;4.4 Fugitive Equilibria --;4.5 The Theory of Island Biogeography --;5. The Concept of Biological Communities --;References.
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Therefore, in addition to theoretical population biology (including some original models) the book also discusses observational data from nature to show how the theoretical models give new insight and how observations give rise to new theoretical thought.
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Ecology.
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Life sciences.
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QH541.B944 1977
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Feddy B Christiansen
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Tom M Fenchel
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