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Author(s): Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg, Veijo Kaitala
ISBN(s): 9780521854351, 0511146973
Edition: illustrated edition
File Details: PDF, 8.51 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0511146973 
ISBN 13: 9780521854351
Author: Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg, Veijo Kaitala

The theme of the book is the distribution and abundance of organisms in space and time. The core of the book lies in how local births and deaths are tied to emigration and immigration processes, and how environmental variability at different scales affects population dynamics with stochastic processes and spatial structure and shows how elementary analytical tools can be used to understand population fluctuations, synchrony, processes underlying range distributions and community structure and species coexistence. The book also shows how spatial population dynamics models can be used to understand life history evolution and aspects of evolutionary game theory. Although primarily based on analytical and numerical analyses of spatial population processes, data from several study systems are also dealt with.

Ecology of Populations 1st Table of contents:

1 . Introduction
Fitness
Ecology of populations
Theory and data in ecology
Suggested reading
2 . Population renewal
Population growth rate
r, R and lambda
Structured populations
Density dependence or not?
Per capita versus population growth rate
Population dynamics: the first step
Population dynamics with delayed density dependence
Population size versus density
Stochasticity
Environmental stochasticity
How to implement stochasticity
Time series
Characterizing time series
Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation
The visibility problem
Summary
3 . Population dynamics in space ? the first step
Setting the stage
Immigration and emigration and single-population dynamics
A two-patch system
Population dynamics in space
Spatially implicit models
Coupled map lattices
Asymmetrical dispersal
Three-patch model
A large grid
Summary
4 . Synchronicity
Synchronous dynamics
Explanations of synchrony
Moran?s theorem
The Moran effect
Dispersal
Spatially autocorrelated Moran effect
Predation
Synchrony across species
Where are we?
Summary
5 . Order?disorder in space and time
Spatial host?parasitoid dynamics
The template
The play
Traveling waves
Evidence from Finland
Evidence from Northumberland and the Alps
Evidence from measles in England and Wales
Another view on self-organization
Evidence from Canada
Summary
6 . Structured populations
The projection matrix
Cohort and maternal effects
Ontogenetic niche shifts
A flexible demographic model
Ontogenetic niche shift
Dynamics of cohort effects and niche shifts
A few comments
Doers and viewers
A population model for doers and viewers
Stage structure and the Tribolium example
Finnish grouse dynamics
Summary
7 . Biodiversity and community structure
Community assembly
Community matrix
Assembling communities
Species abundances
Stochasticity and biodiversity
Community closure
Invasions from a closed species pool
Extinction and invasion cascade versus stability
Invasion from an open species pool
Spatial extension
Dispersal
Interactions and distribution
Management implications
Summary
8 .Habitat loss
What is meant by habitat loss?
Consequences of habitat loss ? a primer
Population-level consequences
Community-level consequences
Habitat-loss-generated population fluctuations
A two-patch refugee system
Local dynamics and ensemble dynamics
Habitat loss and refugees
Life on the edge
Dynamics in the center and at the border of the distribution range
Cyclic dynamics ? a special feature
Population cycles, but not everywhere
Cycle lost
Summary
9 . Population harvesting and management
The problem with small numbers
Declining populations
Detecting trends and sampling ? the spatial dimension
Decline ? slow or sudden?
Harvesting
Harvesting in temporally varying environments
Seasonality
Spatial heterogeneity
Harvesting and evolution
Multi-species harvesting
Summary
10 . Resource matching
Ideal free distribution
Distribution of unequal competitors
Natural ways of achieving undermatching
Limited knowledge
Environmental grain
Noisy world
Resource matching and trophic interactions
Territoriality and despotic behavior
IDD in variable environments
Population structure and resource matching
Resource matching and spatial population dynamics
Linking resource matching and dispersal
Population dynamics and IFD dispersal
Resource matching and synchronous population fluctuations
Summary
11 . Spatial games
Classic games
The Prisoner?s Dilemma
The Hawk-Dove game
The Rock-Scissors-Paper game
Co-operation: early history
Space and strategy co-existence
Boundary and order
Prisoner?s Dilemma
Nowak and May in space
Hawk-Dove game
Rock-Scissors-Paper game
Noise in the RSP payoff matrix
RSP game generalized to Pi strategies
Evolution of co-operation
Indirect reciprocity
Direct reciprocity
Games and population dynamics
Summary
12 . Evolutionary population dynamics
Sexual reproduction
Sex in space
Monogamy or polygyny?
Sex ratio dynamics
Life histories
Iteroparity versus semelparity
Nonlinear dynamics, iteroparity versus semelparity
Space-modulated dynamics, iteroparity versus semelparity
Seed bank in annuals
Evolutionary genetics
Summary
13 . Epilogue
The feedback environment
Generalizations

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