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1 online resource (xxiv, 823 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Encyclopedias of the natural world ; no. 4
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Encyclopedias of the natural world ; no. 4.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This major reference is an overview of the current state of theoretical ecology through a series of topical entries centered on both ecological and statistical themes. Coverage ranges across scales- from the physiological, to populations, landscapes, and ecosystems. Entries provide an introduction to broad fields such as Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Computational Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Epidemiology and Epidemic Modeling, Population Ecology, Spatial Ecology and Statistics in Ecology. Others provide greater specificity and depth, including discussions on the Allee effect, ordinary differential equations, and ecosystem services. Descriptions of modern statistical and modeling approaches and how they contributed to advances in theoretical ecology are also included. cinct, uncompromising, and authoritative- a "must have" for those interested in the use of theory in the ecological sciences."--The publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contents by Subject Area; Contributors; Guide to the Encyclopedia; Preface; A; Adaptive Behavior and Vigilance; Adaptive Dynamics; Adaptive Landscapes; Age Structure; Allee Effects; Allometry and Growth; Apparent Competition; Applied Ecology; Assembly Processes; B; Bayesian Statistics; Behavioral Ecology; Belowground Processes; Beverton-Holt Model; Bifurcations; Biogeochemistry and Nutrient Cycles; Birth-Death Models; Bottom-Up Control; Branching Processes; C; Cannibalism; Cellular Automata; Chaos; Coevolution; Compartment Models; Computational Ecology. |
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Conservation BiologyContinental Scale Patterns; Cooperation, Evolution of; D; Delay Differential Equations; Demography; Difference Equations; Discounting in Bioeconomics; Disease Dynamics; Dispersal, Animal; Dispersal, Evolution of; Dispersal, Plant; Diversity Measures; Dynamic Programming; E; Ecological Economics; Ecosystem Ecology; Ecosystem Engineers; Ecosystem Services; Ecosystem Valuation; Ecotoxicology; Energy Budgets; Environmental Heterogeneity and Plants; Epidemiology and Epidemic Modeling; Evolutionarily Stable Strategies; Evolutionary Computation; F; Facilitation; Fisheries Ecology. |
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Food Chains and Food Web ModulesFood Webs; Foraging Behavior; Forest Simulators; Frequentist Statistics; Functional Traits of Species and Individuals; G; Game Theory; Gap Analysis and Presence/Absence Models; Gas and Energy Fluxes Across Landscapes; Geographic Information Systems; H; Harvesting Theory; Hydrodynamics; I; Individual-Based Ecology; Information Criteria in Ecology; Integrated Whole Organism Physiology; Integrodifference Equations; Invasion Biology; L; Landscape Ecology; M; Marine Reserves and Ecosystem-Based Management; Markov Chains; Mating Behavior; Matrix Models; Meta-Analysis. |
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Metabolic Theory of EcologyMetacommunities; Metapopulations; Microbial Communities; Model Fitting; Movement: From Individuals to Populations; Mutation, Selection, and Genetic Drift; N; Networks, Ecological; Neutral Community Ecology; Niche Construction; Niche Overlap; Nicholson-Bailey Host Parasitoid Model; Nondimensionalization; NPZ Models; O; Ocean Circulation, Dynamics of; Optimal Control Theory; Ordinary Differential Equations; P; Pair Approximations; Partial Differential Equations; Phase Plane Analysis; Phenotypic Plasticity; Phylogenetic Reconstruction; Phylogeography. |
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Plant Competition and Canopy InteractionsPopulation Ecology; Population Viability Analysis; Predator-Prey Models; Q; Quantitative Genetics; R; Reaction-Diffusion Models; Regime Shifts; Reserve Selection and Conservation Prioritization; Resilience and Stability; Restoration Ecology; Ricker Model; S; Sex, Evolution of; Single-Species Population Models; SIR Models; Spatial Ecology; Spatial Models, Stochastic; Spatial Spread; Species Ranges; Stability Analysis; Stage Structure; Statistics in Ecology; Stochasticity (Overview); Stochasticity, Demographic; Stochasticity, Environmental. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Encyclopedias.
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Ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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Electronic books.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Hastings, Alan, 1953-
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Gross, Louis J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Encyclopedia of theoretical ecology. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520269651 (DLC) 2011027208 (OCoLC)748104380 |
| ISBN |
9780520951785 (electronic book) |
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0520951786 (electronic book) |
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9780520269651 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0520269659 |
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