Søkt på: Serie Monographs in Population Biology
totalt 64 treff
Niche Construction
The seemingly innocent observation that the activities of organisms bring about changes in environments is so obvious that it seems an unlikely focus for a new line of thinking …
Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. (MPB-43)
Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution …
A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. (MPB-23), Volume 23
"Ecosystem" is an intuitively appealing concept to most ecologists, but, in spite of its widespread use, the term remains diffuse and ambiguous. The authors of this book argue that …
Quantitative Viral Ecology
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 infect single-celled …
The Population Biology of Tuberculosis
Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the …
Theoretical Studies on Sex Ratio Evolution. (MPB-22), Volume 22
This book deals with a key area of population genetics: the ratio of the sexes in a population, or the allocation of resources to male versus female reproductive function. Samuel …
Mutualistic Networks
Mutualistic interactions among plants and animals have played a paramount role in shaping biodiversity. Yet the majority of studies on mutualistic interactions have involved only a …
Mate Choice in Plants (MPB-19), Volume 19
This book maintains that higher plants manifest some degree of sexual selection, and it begins to build a framework that unifies many features of plant reproduction previously …
Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities. (MPB-9), Volume 9
Many animals regulate their population density by patterns of behavior that would be easy to explain if the forces of natural selection acted to optimize group properties. But …
Fish Ecology, Evolution, and Exploitation
Fish are one of the most important global food sources, supplying a significant share of the world’s protein consumption. From stocks of wild Alaskan salmon and North Sea cod to …
The Dynamics of Arthopod Predator-Prey Systems. (MPB-13), Volume 13
In this study of arthropod predador-prey systems Michael Hassell shows how many of the components of predation may be simply modeled in order to reveal their effects on the overall …
Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects. (MPB-12), Volume 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 insects. Furthermore, in …