Consumer-Resource Dynamics (MPB-36)

Consumer-Resource Dynamics (MPB-36)
Author: William W. Murdoch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400847257

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Despite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions. Throughout, the focus is on how the properties of real organisms affect population dynamics. The core of the book synthesizes and extends the authors' own models involving insect parasitoids and their hosts, and explores in depth how consumer species compete for a dynamic resource. The emerging general consumer-resource theory accounts for how consumers respond to differences among individuals in the resource population. From here the authors move to other models of consumer-resource dynamics and population dynamics in general. Consideration of empirical examples, key concepts, and a necessary review of simple models is followed by examination of spatial processes affecting dynamics, and of implications for biological control of pest organisms. The book establishes the coherence and broad applicability of consumer-resource theory and connects it to single-species dynamics. It closes by stressing the theory's value as a hierarchy of models that allows both generality and testability in the field.

Consumer's Resource Book

Consumer's Resource Book
Author: United States Office of Consumer Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 93
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Consumer-Resource Relationship

The Consumer-Resource Relationship
Author: Claude Lobry
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119544017

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Better known as the "predator-prey relationship," the consumer-resource relationship means the situation where a single species of organisms consumes for survival and reproduction. For example, Escherichia coli consumes glucose, cows consume grass, cheetahs consume baboons; these three very different situations, the first concerns the world of bacteria and the resource is a chemical species, the second concerns mammals and the resource is a plant, and in the final case the consumer and the resource are mammals, have in common the fact of consuming. In a chemostat, microorganisms generally consume (abiotic) minerals, but not always, bacteriophages consume bacteria that constitute a biotic resource. 'The Chemostat' book dealt only with the case of abiotic resources. Mathematically this amounts to replacing in the two equation system of the chemostat the decreasing function by a general increasing then decreasing function. This simple change has greatly enriched the theory. This book shows in this new framework the problem of competition for the same resource.

Consumer Resource Management

Consumer Resource Management
Author: Roy Lawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1986
Genre: Consumer education
ISBN: 9780909179267

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Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)

Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)
Author: A. Townsend Peterson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-11-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691136882

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Terminology, conceptual overview, biogeography, modeling.

Consumer's Resource Handbook

Consumer's Resource Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1980
Genre: Consumer protection
ISBN:

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A handbook for consumer complaints.

Geographical Genetics (MPB-38)

Geographical Genetics (MPB-38)
Author: Bryan K. Epperson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003-08-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691086699

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Population genetics has made great strides in applying statistical analysis and mathematical modeling to understand how genes mutate and spread through populations over time. But real populations also live in space. Streams, mountains, and other geographic features often divide populations, limit migration, or otherwise influence gene flow. This book rigorously examines the processes that determine geographic patterns of genetic variation, providing a comprehensive guide to their study and interpretation. Geographical Genetics has a unique focus on the mathematical relationships of spatial statistical measures of patterns to stochastic processes. It also develops the probability and distribution theory of various spatial statistics for analysis of population genetic data, detailing exact methods for using various spatial features to make precise inferences about migration, natural selection, and other dynamic forces. The book also reviews the experimental literature on the types of spatial patterns of genetic variation found within and among populations. And it makes an unprecedented strong connection between observed measures of spatial patterns and those predicted theoretically. Along the way, it introduces readers to the mathematics of spatial statistics, applications to specific population genetic systems, and the relationship between the mathematics of space-time processes and the formal theory of geographical genetics. Written by a leading authority, this is the first comprehensive treatment of geographical genetics. It is a much-needed guide to the theory, techniques, and applications of a field that will play an increasingly important role in population biology and ecology.