Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation

by Russell Lande, Steinar Engen, Bernt-Erik Sæther, et al.

Book Overview

Random fluctuations in population dynamics are fundamentally important in pure and applied ecology. This book introduces demographic and environmental stochasticity, and illustrates statistical methods for estimating them from field data. The concept of long-run growth rate of a population is explained and extended to age-structured populations. Diffusion approximations show how stochastic factors affect extinction in single populations and metapopulations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198525257
• ISBN13: 9780198525257
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"