Beschreibung:
Ecology is more quantitative and theory-driven than ever before, and A Primer of Ecology with R combines an introduction to the major theoretical concepts in general ecology with a cutting edge open source tool, the R programming language. Starting with geometric growth and proceeding through stability of multispecies interactions and species-abundance distributions, this book demystifies and explains fundamental ideas in population and community ecology. Graduate students in ecology, along with upper division undergraduates and faculty, will find this to be a useful overview of important topics.
This book provides an introduction to the use of R to model ecological populations and their interactions.
Single Species Populations.- Simple Density-independent Growth.- Density-independent Demography.- Density-dependent Growth.- Populations in Space.- Two-species Interactions.- Lotka-Volterra Interspecific Competition.- Enemy-Victim Interactions.- Special Topics.- An Introduction to Food Webs, and Lessons from Lotka-Volterra Models.- Multiple Basins of Attraction.- Competition, Colonization, and Temporal Niche Partitioning.- Community Composition and Diversity.