The populations of many species of animals and plants are age-structured, ie the individuals
present at any one time were born over a range of different times, and their fertility and …

Many sea turtle stocks are in decline worldwide due to excessive harvesting and destruction
of nesting and foraging habitats.^ Yet population abundance for many stocks can display …

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Random fluctuations in population dynamics are fundamentally important in pure and
applied ecology. This book introduces demographic and environmental stochasticity, and …

Species abundance distributions (SADs) follow one of ecology's oldest and most universal
laws–every community shows a hollow curve or hyperbolic shape on a histogram with many …

▪ Abstract In large-herbivore populations, environmental variation and density dependence
co-occur and have similar effects on various fitness components. Our review aims to quantify …

When the second edition of this book was nearly exhausted, and orders were grinding to a
halt, Springer urged me to do a third edition. At the age of 90 I said that was out of the …

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rank high among the subject matters of biology. The catch, handling and digestion of a prey …

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unrelated approaches. Yet the biomathematical fiterature of the last 1 O-20 years reflects the …