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Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g
With Special Emphasis on Insects
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-506687-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Many important biological problems are concerned with birth, death, and population change - the basis of classical demographic research. Yet few biologists are aware that the well-developed principles of human demography can be applied to biological problems. This book introduces biologists to population studies and shows how to apply demographic principles and techniques in research. It outlines general principles - life tables, growth models, stable population theory - and provides examples from entomology. The book is based on the author's insect demography course at the University of California, Davis. It is intended as a reference handbook for ecologists, population biologists, and entomologists, and as a graduate text in basic demography for advanced biology and ecology students.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata) Insekten (Entomologie)
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: Introduction
- 1.1: Formalization
- 1.2: Elementary Characteristics of Populations
- 2: Life Tables
- 2.1: General Concepts
- 2.2: The Single Decrement Life Tables
- 2.3: The Abridged Life Table
- 2.4: The Multiple Decrement Life Table
- 2.5: Selected Properties of Model Life Tables
- 3: Reproduction
- 3.1: General Background
- 3.2: Per Capita Reproductive Rates
- 3.3: Reproductive Heterogeneity
- 3.4: Generalizations
- 4: Population I. Basic Concepts and Models
- 4.1: Background
- 4.2: The Stable Population Model
- 4.3: Population Projection
- 4.4: Fundamental Properties of Populations
- 5: Population II. Extensions of Stable Theory
- 5.1: Two-Sex Models
- 5.2: Stochastic Demography
- 5.3: Multiregional Demography
- 5.4: Demographic Theory of Social Insects: The Honeybee
- 5.5: The Unity of Demographic Population Models
- 6: Demographic Applications
- 6.1: Estimation
- 6.2: Curve Fitting
- 6.3: Mass Rearing: Basic Harvesting Concepts
- 6.4: Parasitoid Mass Rearing
- 6.5: Pros and Cons of Demographic Modeling
