Nisbet, R.M. and Gurney, William (1982) Modelling fluctuating populations. John Wiley and Sons Limited, Chichester. ISBN 9781930665903Full text not available in this repository.
Modelling Fluctuating Populations, originally published in 1982, is a classic textbook because primarily, this book takes a distinctive approach to population dynamics, by emphasizing from the earliest chapters that all populations fluctuate continuously. Traditional themes in theoretical ecology such as equilibrium and population stability are linked to analyses of the response of a population to environmental fluctuations and to extinction probabilities. Thus, the book's approach confronts head-on one common criticism of simple ecological models - the mismatch between the mathematical mechanisms studied and the questions of top ecological concern. Secondly, the book demonstrates the power of techniques based on linear mathematics.
|Keywords:||population dynamics, linear mathematics, fluctuating populations, Probabilities. Mathematical statistics|
|Subjects:||Science > Mathematics > Probabilities. Mathematical statistics|
|Department:||Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics|
|Depositing user:||Pure Administrator|
|Date Deposited:||18 Oct 2012 11:59|
|Last modified:||18 Oct 2012 16:59|
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