TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hone, R.M. Sibly,
AU  - Clutton-Brock,T.H.
AU  - 
ED  - Royal Society (Great Britain)
TI  - Wildlife Population Growth Rates
SN  - 052182608X
U1  - 591.788 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The Royal Society in association with Cambridge University Press
KW  - Animal populations
KW  - Animali -- Dinamica di popolazioni
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Population growth rate and its determinants: an overview; 2. Demographic, mechanistic and density-dependent determinants of population growth rate: a case study in an avian predator;  3. Estimating density dependence in time series of age-structured populations;  4. Pattern of variation in avian population growth; 5. Determinants of human population growth; 6. Two complementary paradigms for analyzing population dynamics; 7. Complex numerical responses to top-down and bottom-up processes in vertebrate populations;  8. The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators; 9. Populations in variable environments: the effect of variability in a species' primary resource; 10. Trophic interactions and population growth rates: describing patterns and identifying mechanisms; 11. Behavioural models of population growth rates: implications for conservation and prediction; 12. Comparative ungulate dynamics: the devil is in the detail; 13. Population growth rate as a basis for ecological risk assessment of toxic chemicals; 14. Population growth rates: issues and an application
N2  - This book takes a fresh approach to some of the classic questions in ecology. What determines where a species lives? And what determines its abundance? Topics covered include population regulation, density-dependence, the ecological niche, resource and interference competition, habitat fragmentation and the ecological effects of environmental stress.
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2003041953.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003041953.html
ER  -