Consumer-Resource Dynamics (Mpb-36)

by William W. Murdoch, Cheryl J. Briggs, Roger M. Nisbet

Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006571
• ISBN13: 9780691006574
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"