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Growth and regulation of animal populations / Lawrence B. Slobodkin.

Title
Growth and regulation of animal populations / Lawrence B. Slobodkin.
Author
Slobodkin, Lawrence B.
Publication
New York : Dover Publications, c1980.

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Description
xii, 234 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Subject
Animal populations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Man in the ecological world -- Communities and populations -- The ecological niche in a general sense -- Life insurance for animals -- Reproduction and increase -- Simple changes in populations -- Competition between species -- Gause's experiments and their implications -- Weakness of the Sigmoid Growth Model : growth of Metazoan populations -- Excape in time and space -- Interactions between Metazoan species -- Prudent predators and efficient prey -- Predator-prey interactions -- The reality of cycles -- Communities in nature -- Speculation -- Appendix. An optimal strategy of evolution.
ISBN
0486639584 (pbk.) :
LCCN
^^^79055913^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library