Applied Demography for Biologists: with Special Emphasis on InsectsOxford University Press, 04.02.1993 - 224 Seiten This is the first book to comprehensively apply the fundamental tools and concepts of demography to a nonhuman species. It provides clear and concise treatment of standard demographic techniques such as life table analysis and population projection; introduces models that have seldom appeared outside of the demographic literature including the multiple decrement life table, the intrinsic sex ratio, and multiregional demography; and addresses demographic problems that are unique to nonhuman organisms such as the demographic theory of social insects and harvesting techniques applied to insect mass rearing. The book also contains a synthesis of fundamental properties of population such as momentum and convergence to the stable age distribution, with a section on the unity of demographic models, and appendices detailing analytical methods used to quantify and model the data gathered in a ground-breaking study on the mortality experience of 1.2 million medflies. Based on an insect demography course at the University of California, Davis, the book is intended for practicing entomologists, population biologists, and ecologists for use in research or as a graduate text. |
Inhalt
1 Introduction | 3 |
2 Life Tables | 11 |
3 Reproduction | 43 |
Basic Concepts and Models | 77 |
Extensions of Stable Theory | 106 |
6 Demographic Applications | 140 |
A Preliminary Analysis of Mortality in 12 Million Medflies | 182 |
Life Table for 598118 Male Medflies | 196 |
Life Table for 605528 Female Medflies | 200 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adult age class age interval age structure age x age-specific mortality biological Biosteres birth and death birth rate Carey clutch cohort colony column computed days lived death rates decrement table demographic Demography denote discard age eclosion equation example expectation factor fecundity female parasitoid fertility force of mortality given in Table growth rate harvest rate host human louse insect insect-days intrinsic rate Keyfitz L₁ larvae Leslie matrix Lotka mean age medfly Mediterranean Fruit Fly mite population mortality rates mortality schedule multiple decrement N₁ newborn number of days number of individuals number of offspring parameters parasites parasitoid female parity population growth population models Pressat probability of dying probability of surviving probit production Pupa radix rate of increase region reproductive rate sex ratio sex-specific spider mite stable age distribution stable population stable theory stochastic survival schedule survival to age swarming total number Tuljapurkar variance vital rates
Beliebte Passagen
Seite x - The members of any cohort are entitled to participate in only one slice of life — their unique location in the stream of history. Because it embodies a temporally specific version of the heritage, each cohort is differentiated from all others, despite the minimization of variability by symbolically perpetuated institutions and by hierarchically graduated structures of authority.
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