Introduction to Population Ecology is an accessible and up-to-date textbook covering all aspects of population ecology.
- Discusses field and laboratory data to illustrate the fundamental laws of population ecology.
- Provides an overview of how population theory has developed.
- Explores single-species population growth and self-limitation; metapopulations; and a broad range of interspecific interactions including parasite-host, predator-prey, and plant-herbivore.
- Keeps the mathematics as simple as possible, using a careful step-by-step approach and including graphs and other visual aids to help understanding.
Artwork from the book is available to instructors online at www.blackwellpublishing.com/rockwood and by request on CD-ROM.
