Book contents
- Animal Population Ecology
- Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
- Animal Population Ecology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1 Hunting Strategies of Predators as Revealed in Field Studies of Great Tits
- 2 The Paradox of Crypsis: Is it Effective against Visual Predation?
- 3 Logistic Law of Population Growth: What Is It Really?
- 4 Reproduction Curves and Their Utilities
- 5 Generalization of the Logistic Model
- 6 Scramble and Contest Competition: What Is the Difference?
- 7 Regulation of Populations: Its Myths and Real Nature
- 8 Predator–Prey Interaction Processes
- 9 Interspecific Competition Processes
- 10 Observations, Analyses, and Interpretations: A Personal View through the Spruce Budworm Studies
- References
- Index
Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- Animal Population Ecology
- Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
- Animal Population Ecology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1 Hunting Strategies of Predators as Revealed in Field Studies of Great Tits
- 2 The Paradox of Crypsis: Is it Effective against Visual Predation?
- 3 Logistic Law of Population Growth: What Is It Really?
- 4 Reproduction Curves and Their Utilities
- 5 Generalization of the Logistic Model
- 6 Scramble and Contest Competition: What Is the Difference?
- 7 Regulation of Populations: Its Myths and Real Nature
- 8 Predator–Prey Interaction Processes
- 9 Interspecific Competition Processes
- 10 Observations, Analyses, and Interpretations: A Personal View through the Spruce Budworm Studies
- References
- Index
Summary
When a university professor retired or died, it often happens that his/her former students get together to compile a festschrift to commemorate their teacher. But, I was not a professor, just a plain research scientist of the Canadian Forestry Service. I had no students who would compile my past works. But that is a good thing after all because, in retrospect, I find that many of my early ideas were neither adequately conceived nor well presented in writing. However, over the later years of my research career, the ideas became consolidated to higher levels of clarity, coherence, and integrity, such that these would now be readily put to a practical use in the study of animal populations. Thus, when I retired from my active research career, I decided to assemble those ideas to share them with younger-generation population ecologists.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Animal Population EcologyAn Analytical Approach, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021