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Quantitative Ecology - A New Unified Approach
Quantitative Ecology introduces and discusses the principles of ecology from populations to ecosystems including human populations, disease, exotic organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity and global dynamics. The book also reformulates and unifies ecological equations making them more accessible to the reader and easier to teach.
- Author
- Clarence Lehman, Shelby Loberg, & Adam Clark
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 111 sections
- 01: What is Ecology
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Definitions of ecology
- 1.03: Ecology then and now
- 1.04: Methods of ecology
- 02: Ecological Theory
- 2.01: Levels of Ecology
- 2.02: Role of theory
- 2.03: What is a model
- 2.04: Present State
- 03: A Basic Population Model
- 3.01: Characterizing populations
- 3.02: Bacterial Growth
- 3.03: A First Computer Model
- 3.04: Program results
- 3.05: Darwin's elephants
- 04: Modeling a Single Population
- 4.01: Density-independent growth
- 4.02: Density-enhanced growth
- 4.03: Density-limited growth
- 4.04: Parameter combinations
- 4.05: Generalization
- 05: Differential and Difference Forms
- 5.01: Chapter Introduction
- 5.02: A mathematical view
- 5.03: Exponential Solution
- 5.04: Logistic solution
- 5.05: Orthologistic solution
- 06: Human Population Growth
- 6.01: Chapter Introduction
- 6.02: Phenomological Graph
- 6.03: Biological-ecological graph
- 6.04: A global transition
- 07: Chaos and Randomness
- 7.01: Chapter Introduction
- 7.02: Depicting population growth
- 7.03: Hypothetical insect data
- 7.04: Sensitive Dependence
- 7.05: Dampening of Chaos
- 7.06: Bifurcation diagram
- 7.07: Properties
- 08: Theory of Interactions
- 8.01: Dynamics of two Interacting Species
- 8.02: Code for two species
- 8.03: Summary of interactions
- 09: Embodied by Natural Selection
- 9.01: Chapter Introduction
- 9.02: Mutualism
- 9.03: Herbivory
- 9.04: Predation
- 9.05: Predatory plants
- 9.06: Defense
- 9.07: Competition
- 10: Phase Space
- 10.01: Chapter Introduction
- 10.02: Phase Space
- 10.03: Surface generating the flow
- 10.04: A phase space example
- 11: State Spaces
- 11.01: State Spaces
- 12: Predator and Prey
- 12.01: Further Examples of Predation
- 12.02: Ecological communities are complex
- 12.03: Predator-prey model
- 12.04: Phase Space
- 12.05: Assumption of the basic model
- 12.06: Independent carrying capacities
- 12.07: Predator satiation and starvation
- 12.08: Effects of Space
- 13: Humans as Predators
- 13.01: Chapter Introduction
- 13.02: Consciously Controlled Predation
- 13.03: Stochastic modeling
- 13.04: Present Situation
- 14: Humans as Prey
- 14.01: Chapter Introduction
- 14.02: Portals
- 14.03: Pathogen Mobility
- 14.04: Disease more generally
- 14.05: The Strange Case of Polio
- 14.06: Modern disease trends
- 14.07: An ancient plague perhaps vanishing
- 15: Theory of Disease
- 15.01: New terminology
- 15.02: The SIR flowchart
- 15.03: The SIR Equations
- 15.04: The SI Equations
- 15.05: The I Equation
- 15.06: Analysis of the I model
- 15.07: 15.7 The rsN model again
- 15.08: Application to an actual outbreak
- 15.09: Conflicting ethics
- 16: Competition
- 16.01: Chapter Introduction
- 16.02: The niche concept
- 16.03: Resource competition
- 16.04: Competitive exclusion
- 16.05: Succession
- 16.06: Single-resource phase space
- 16.07: Multiple resource phase space
- 16.08: Lotka-Volterra formulation
- 17: Mutualism
- 17.01: Chapter Introduction
- 17.02: Phase Diagrams
- 17.03: Quasi-species
- 17.04: Our own species
- 18: Higher-order models
- 18.01: Chapter Introduction
- 18.02: One-species Example
- 18.03: Two-species blending
- 18.04: A way of organizing