A Primer of Ecology

by Gotelli N. (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $114.66

  This book presents a concise but detailed exposition of the most common mathematical models in population and community ecology. It is intended to demystify ecological models and the mathematics behind them by deriving the models from first principles.
  

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.28

  With the aim of teaching students the essential models in population and community ecology, this book explains in detail the basic concepts of exponential and logistic population growth, age-structured demography, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation and island biogeography. Each chapter is graded from simple material to advanced material, for both beginning undergraduates and upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates.