Title | Population Biology [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, June 22-30, 1982 / edited by Herbert I. Freedman, Curtis Strobeck |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1983 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87893-0 |
Descript | XVIII, 444 p. online resource |
I Population Genetics -- The Use of Coefficients of Identity to Study Random Drift -- Instability and Repulsivity of the Fixation States in Biallelic Selection Models -- Microscopic Clustering of Population Processes -- Models for Peripheral Populations: The Role of Immigration -- A Mathematical Analysis of the Chitty Hypothesis -- An Haploid Model for Genotype-Dependent Population Diffusion -- Further Models of Selection with Antagonistic Pleiotropy -- Algebraic Methods in Genetics -- II Life History Strategies -- The Evolution of Life Histories Under Pleiotropic Constraints and K-Selection -- On the r-K Tradeoff in Density Dependent Selection -- A Test of Ideas About the Evolution of Efficiencies and Strategies of Resource Use -- Compensatory Strategies of Energy Investment in Uncertain Environments -- A Geometric Model for Optimal Life History -- Necessary Conditions for an Invasion Proof Strategy -- The Evolution of Stable Strategies -- III Population Growth -- Forecasting the Human Population -- Persistence in Uncertain Environments -- Formulating Population Models with Differential Aging -- Population Modelling by Higher Order Differential Equations -- Concerning the Time-Dependence of Population Vital Rates -- Extinction Probabilities in Stochastic Age-Structured Models of Population Growth -- The Systematic Formulation of Delay-Differential Models of Age or Size Structured Populations -- Lotka Distribution for a Finite Mixture of Human Populations I -- A Problem in Nonlinear Age Dependent Population Diffusion -- IV Competitive Systems -- Coexistence of Competitors in a Stochastic Environment: The Storage Effect -- Invited Guest Lecture: Models of Competition for a Single Resource -- Competitive Predator-Prey Systems and Coexistence -- Coexistence of Many Competing Species -- Competition and Age-Structure -- Selection of Molecular Species by Competition for a Common Source -- An Analysis of Competition Between The Larvae of a Deposit-Feeding and a Filter-Feeding Species of Chironomid (Diptera), Using a Mechanistic Model -- V predator-Prey Systems -- Invited Guest Lecture: The Dynamics of Host-Parasitoid Interactions with Heterogeneity Host Density Dependence and Variable Sex Ratios -- Some Applications of Coherent State Representation to Nonlinear Bio-Oscillators -- Mathematical Analysis of Some Resource-PreyPredator Models: Application to a NPZ Microcosm Model -- Resonance in Prey-Predator Systems -- A Mathematical Model of Population Regulation in Cyclic Mammals -- Monotone Schemes for Three Species Prey-Predator Reaction-Diffusion -- Some Age-Structure Effects in Predator-Prey Models -- A Model Predator-Prey System with Mutual Interference and Time Delay -- Oscillations in Prey-Predator Volterra Models -- VI Community Ecology -- Coevolution -- A Coexistence Model for N-Species Using Nearest Neighbour Interaction and the Role of Diffusion -- Periodic Lotka-Volterra Systems and Time Sharing of Ecological Niches -- Nonobligate and Obligate Models of Mutualism -- Stability of Community Interaction Matrices -- Biomass Flow, Structure and Stability of Model Ecological Systems -- Is Dynamical Systems Theory the Best Way to Understand Ecosystem Stability? -- Stability in Compartmental Models -- VII Resource Management -- Invited Guest Lecture: Search Theory in Ecology and Resource Management -- Models of Pheromone Release for Pest Control in which Males Attract Females -- Age- and Size-Specific Models in the Dungeness Crab Fishery -- Harvesting Under Small Demographic Uncertainty -- Resource Recovery Time: Just How Destabilizing Is It? -- VIII Epidemology and Immunology -- Influence of Infectious Disease on the Growth of a Population with Three Genotypes -- Interaction of Antitumor Cells: Competition and Interference -- A Model for Infection -- A Cyclic Epidemic Model with Temporary Immunity and Vital Dynamics