Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Reminiscences of Martha von Rosen -- 1 From Geppertsfeld to the Oder -- 2 From the Oder to the Elbe -- 3 An End to Flight -- 4 Life Under Soviet Occupation -- 5 Marking Time -- 6 New Surprises -- 7 Reconnaissance -- 8 Reunion -- 9 The Last Return -- The Diary of Jürgen von Rosen -- Introduction -- 1 Bellaria, Camp 14 -- 2 From Bellaria to Ile-de-France -- 3 Forced Labour Camps in France -- 4 Ried, Upper Bavaria -- Life in Canada: The Open World -- Editor's Afterword: Some Anthropological Reflections on Ethnography, War, Ethnicity and Other Matters -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Note: POPULATION ECOLOGY: A Unified Study of Animals and Plants, THIRD EDITION -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: SINGLE-SPECIES POPULATIONS -- Chapter 1: Describing populations -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Population processes -- 1.3 The diagrammatic life table -- 1.3.1 General form -- 1.3.2 The common field grasshopper, an annual species -- 1.3.3 Ragwort, a biennial -- 1.3.4 More complex life cycles -- 1.3.5 Age and stage: the problems of describing some plant and animal populations -- 1.4 Conventional life tables -- 1.4.1 The cohort life table -- 1.4.2 The static life table -- 1.4.3 Resume -- 1.5 Some generalizations -- 1.6 The modular growth of organisms -- 1.7 Buried seed banks -- Chapter 2: Intraspecific competition -- 2.1 The nature of intraspecific competition -- 2.2 Three characteristics of intraspecific competition -- 2.3 Density-dependence: a fourth characteristic -- 2.4 Scramble and contest -- 2.5 Actual effects of intraspecific competition -- 2.5.1 Palmblad's data -- 2.5.2 Competition in plants: a deeper look -- 2.5.3 lndividual variability -- 2.5.4 Self-thinning in plants -- 2.5.5 Competition in Patella cochlear -- 2.5.6 Competition in the fruit fly -- 2.6 Negative competition -- Chapter 3: Models of single-species populations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Populations breeding at discrete intervals -- 3.2.1 The basic equations -- 3.2.2 Incorporation of a range of competition -- 3.2.3 Models for annual plants -- 3.3 Continuous breeding -- 3.4 The utility of the equations -- 3.4.1 Causes of population fluctuations -- 3.4.2 The equations as descriptions -- 3.4.3 'Cobwebbing'-a more general approach -- 3.5 Incorporation of age-specific fecundity and mortality -- 3.5.1 The matrix model -- 3.5.2 Using the model -- 3.5.3 A working example: Poa annua -- Part 2: INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS -- Chapter4: Interspecific competition. , 4.1 The nature of interspecific interactions -- 4.2 Interspecific competition -- 4.3 A field example: granivorous ants -- 4.4 Competition between plant species: experimental approaches -- 4.4.1 Manipulating density -- 4.4.2 Manipulating resources -- 4.5 The ecological niche -- 4.6 The Competitive Exclusion Principle -- 4.7 Competitive exclusion in the field -- 4.8 Competitive release -- 4.9 Coexistence: resource partitioning -- 4.10 Character displacement -- 4.11 Competition: its avoidance or its non-existence? -- 4.12 Competition and coexistence in plants -- 4.13 A logistic model of two-species competition -- 4.13.1 The model's utility -- 4.13.2 A test of the model: fruit fly competition -- 4.14 Analysis of competition in plants -- 4.15 Niche overlap -- 4.16 Competition and heterogeneity -- Chapter 5: Predation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Patterns of abundance -- 5.3 Coevolution, and specialization amongst predators -- 5.3.1 One explanation for the degrees of specialization -- 5.3.2 Food preference and predator switching -- 5.4 Time and timing -- 5.5 Effects on prey fitness -- 5.5.1 The effects of herbivores on plant fitness -- 5.6 'The effects of predation-rate on predator fitness -- 5.6.1 Thresholds -- 5.6.2 Food quality -- 5.7 The functional response of predators to prey availability -- 5.7.1 The 'type 2' response -- 5.7.2 The 'type 1' response -- 5.7.3 Variation in handling time and searching efficiency: 'type 3' responses -- 5.7.4 Switching and 'type 3' responses -- 5.8 Aggregated effects -- 5.8.1 Parasite-host distributions -- 5.8.2 Refuges -- 5.8.3 Partial refuges: aggregative responses -- 5.8.4 Further responses to patchiness -- 5.8.5 'Even' distributions -- 5.8.6 Underlying behaviour -- 5.8.7 'Hide-and-seek' -- 5.9 Mutual interference amongst predators -- 5.9.1 A similar effect amongst parasites -- 5.10 Interference and pseudointerference. , 5.11 Optimal foraging -- 5.12 Resume -- 5.13 Mathematical models -- 5.13.1 Host-parasitoid models -- 5.13.2 Heterogeneity in host-parasitoid interactions -- 5.13.3 A model of grazing systems -- 5.14 'Patterns of abundance' reconsidered -- 5.15 Harvesting -- 5.15.1 Characteristics of harvested populations -- 5.15.2 Harvesting in structured populations -- 5.15.3 Incorporating population structure: matrix models of harvesting -- Part 3: SYNTHESIS -- Chapter 6: Population regulation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Nicholson's view -- 6.3 Andrewartha and Birch's view -- 6.4 An example: Thrips imaginis -- 6.5 Some general conclusions -- 6.6 A life-table analysis of a Colorado beetle population -- 6.6.1 Life-table data -- 6.6.2 'Key-factor' analysis -- 6.6.3 Regulation of the population -- 6.6.4 A population model -- 6.7 The problem re-emerges -- 6.7.1 Life-table analyses -- 6.7.2 Single-species time series -- 6.7.3 Population regulation in vertebrates -- 6.8 Population regulation in plants -- 6.9 Genetic change -- 6.10 Territoriality -- 6.11 'Space capture' in plants -- 6.12 Chaos in ecological systems -- Chapter 7: Beyond population ecology -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Metapopulation dynamics -- 7.2.1 Metapopulation models -- 7.2.2 Examples of metapopulations -- 7.2.3 Applications of the metapopulation concept -- 7.3 Community structure -- 7.3.1 The role of interspecific competition -- 7.3.2 The role of predation -- 7.3.3 The role of disturbance -- 7.3.4 The role of instability -- 7.3.5 The role of habitat size and diversity -- 7.3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Author index -- Organism index -- Subject index.

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