This volume describes the biology of the life cycle (age, size, development stage, for example) and follows the transitions of individuals through stages in the life cycle (survival, growth, development, and reproduction). They are an alternative to models that describe populations in terms of total numbers or biomass. Such models, which depend much more intensively on computer firepower than aggregate or logistic models, have taken a central place in ecological investigations in the last decade. Making appropriate assumptions about their parameters, the ecologist can describe constant environments, time-varying environments, density-dependent populations, and species-species or species-resource interactions with these models.
- ISBN10 0412072610
- ISBN13 9780412072611
- Publish Date 9 July 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Chapman and Hall
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 496
- Language English