Population Ecology of Individuals

Name: Population Ecology of Individuals
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Adam Lomnicki(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 31. März 2020

240 Seiten

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Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Basic Models of Population Ecology and Intrapopulation Variability
1.1. Individuals and Superorganisms
1.2. Unlimited Population Growth
1.3. Limited Population Growth
1.4. Limited Growth in Discrete Places
2. Individual Variation in Resource Partitioning and Population Dynamics
2.1. Resource Partitioning among Individuals
2.2. Four Versions of the Model of Resource Partitioning
2.3. Population Stability and Persistence
2.4. Laboratory and Field Data
2.5. Scramble and Contest Competition
3. Individual Variation of Body Weight in Plant and Animal Populations
3.1. Empirical Data
3.2. Some Simple Explanations and Their Shortcomings
3.3. Weight Differentiation under Stochastic Growth
3.4. Deterministic Growth and the Importance of Pearly Differentiation
3.5. Weight Differentiation in Competition for Space
3.6. Weight Distribution and General Properties of the Function y(x)
4. Individual Differences and Hereditary Variation
4.1. Variation as an Adaptation
4.2. Differential Mortality and the Soft Selection Concept
4.3. Genetic Determination of Individual Success in the Ecological World
5. Age and Overlapping Generations
5.1. Age-Dependent Individual Success
5.2. Distinct Life Stages within a Population
5.3. Simple Extension of the Models of Population Dynamics to Overlapping Generations
5.4. Discrete Versus Continuous Models of Population Dynamics
6. The Mechanism of Contest Competition
6.1. Definition of Contest Competition
6.2. Population Effects of Contest Competition
6.3. The Case Study: Competition among Gall Aphids Pemphigus belae
6.4. Social Hierarchy, Territoriality, and Contest Competition
6.5. Evolutionarily Stable Arms Investments, or How Contest Competition Can Be Regarded as a Result of Arms Races
7. Self-regulation of Population Size
7.1. Self-regulation in Terms of Game Theory
7.2. Self-regulation in Confined Laboratory Populations
7.3. Optimal Reproduction in Populations with Unequal Resource Partitioning
8. Emigration and Unequal Resource Partitioning
8.1. Emigration from Groups of Related and Unrelated Individuals
8.2. Impermanent Local Habitats in Heterogeneous Space
8.3. Evolution of Emigration from Local Populations without Unequal Resource Partitioning
8.4. Emigration from Local Populations with Unequal Resource Partitioning
8.5. Emigration, and Scramble and Contest Competition
8.6. Free and Despotic Distribution of Animals
9. Field and Laboratory Populations of Animals
9.1. Limitations of Field Studies
9.2. Animal Populations in the Laboratory
9.3. Free and Confined Laboratory Populations of Hydra
9.4. Free and Confined Laboratory Populations of Flour Beetles
9.5. Confined Populations of Animals in the Field
10. Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity and Stability of Ecological Systems
10.1. Reproduction in Spatially and Temporally Heterogeneous Environments
10.2. Spatial Microheterogeneity
10.3. Direct Relations between Spatial Heterogeneity, Individual Variability, and Stability
10.4. Spatial Heterogeneity and Species Diversity
10.5. Spatial Heterogeneity and Ecosystem Stability
References
Author Index
Subject Index

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