If habitat destruction or overexploitation of populations is severe, species loss can occur
directly and abruptly. Yet the final descent to extinction is often driven by synergistic …

This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to
link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and …

For at least 200 years, since the time of Malthus, population growth has been recognized as
providing a critical link between the performance of individual organisms and the ecology …

This widely anticipated revision of the groundbreaking book, Ecological Understanding,
updates this crucial sourcebook of contemporary philosophical insights for practicing …

Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach have made invaluable
contributions to understanding how gradual evolution leads to adaptation when individuals …

This paper is concerned with the issues of feasibility, stability and robustness on the
switched model predictive control (MPC) of a class of discrete-time switched linear systems …

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biology This is a concise, comprehensive, and
accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the …

Hurlbert divides experimental ecologist into 'those who do not see any need for dispersion
(of replicated treatments and controls), and those who do recognize its importance and take …

Many of the existing models on stage structured populations are single species models or
models which assume a constant resource supply. In reality, growth is a combined result of …