Applied Demography for Biologists
With Special Emphasis on Insects
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 June 1993
- ISBN 9780195066876
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 243x164x21 mm
- Weight 524 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Long description:
Many important biological problems are concerned with birth, death, and population change - the basis of classical demographic research. Yet few biologists are aware that the well-developed principles of human demography can be applied to biological problems. This book introduces biologists to population studies and shows how to apply demographic principles and techniques in research. It outlines general principles - life tables, growth models, stable population theory - and provides examples from entomology. The book is based on the author's insect demography course at the University of California, Davis. It is intended as a reference handbook for ecologists, population biologists, and entomologists, and as a graduate text in basic demography for advanced biology and ecology students.
'there is much of interest in this book to insect ecologists ... an interesting book that should be studied by anyone involved in the experimental study of insect populations'
H.C.J. Godfray, TREE vol. 9, no. 8 August 1994
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Formalization
Elementary Characteristics of Populations
Life Tables
General Concepts
The Single Decrement Life Tables
The Abridged Life Table
The Multiple Decrement Life Table
Selected Properties of Model Life Tables
Reproduction
General Background
Per Capita Reproductive Rates
Reproductive Heterogeneity
Generalizations
Population I. Basic Concepts and Models
Background
The Stable Population Model
Population Projection
Fundamental Properties of Populations
Population II. Extensions of Stable Theory
Two-Sex Models
Stochastic Demography
Multiregional Demography
Demographic Theory of Social Insects: The Honeybee
The Unity of Demographic Population Models
Demographic Applications
Estimation
Curve Fitting
Mass Rearing: Basic Harvesting Concepts
Parasitoid Mass Rearing
Pros and Cons of Demographic Modeling
