Stability in Model Populations

by Laurence D. Mueller and Amitabh Joshi

Book Overview

Throughout the twentieth century, biologists investigated the mechanisms that stabilize biological populations, populations which--if unchecked by such agencies as competition and predation--should grow geometrically. How is order in nature maintained in the face of the seemingly disorderly struggle for existence? In this book, Laurence Mueller and Amitabh Joshi examine current theories of population stability and show how recent laboratory research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691007330
• ISBN13: 9780691007335
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"