Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction to wildlife population growth rates
- 2 Population growth rate and its determinants: an overview
- 3 Demographic, mechanistic and density-dependent determinants of population growth rate: a case study in an avian predator
- 4 Estimating density dependence in time-series of age-structured populations
- 5 Pattern of variation in avian population growth rates
- 6 Determinants of human population growth
- 7 Two complementary paradigms for analysing population dynamics
- 8 Complex numerical responses to top-down and bottom-up processes in vertebrate populations
- 9 The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators
- 10 Populations in variable environments: the effect of variability in a species' primary resource
- 11 Trophic interactions and population growth rates: describing patterns and identifying mechanisms
- 12 Behavioural models of population growth rates: implications for conservation and prediction
- 13 Comparative ungulate dynamics: the devil is in the detail
- 14 Population growth rate as a basis for ecological risk assessment of toxic chemicals
- 15 Population growth rates: issues and an application
- References
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Author index
- Subject index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction to wildlife population growth rates
- 2 Population growth rate and its determinants: an overview
- 3 Demographic, mechanistic and density-dependent determinants of population growth rate: a case study in an avian predator
- 4 Estimating density dependence in time-series of age-structured populations
- 5 Pattern of variation in avian population growth rates
- 6 Determinants of human population growth
- 7 Two complementary paradigms for analysing population dynamics
- 8 Complex numerical responses to top-down and bottom-up processes in vertebrate populations
- 9 The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators
- 10 Populations in variable environments: the effect of variability in a species' primary resource
- 11 Trophic interactions and population growth rates: describing patterns and identifying mechanisms
- 12 Behavioural models of population growth rates: implications for conservation and prediction
- 13 Comparative ungulate dynamics: the devil is in the detail
- 14 Population growth rate as a basis for ecological risk assessment of toxic chemicals
- 15 Population growth rates: issues and an application
- References
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Wildlife Population Growth Rates , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003