LEADER 04341nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910462599303321 005 20211028030636.0 010 $a1-299-05146-4 010 $a1-4008-4725-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400847259 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330883 035 $a(EBL)1113400 035 $a(OCoLC)828794190 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11526860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10940414 035 $a(PQKB)10376221 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1113400 035 $a(DE-B1597)447677 035 $a(OCoLC)827948857 035 $a(OCoLC)979905371 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400847259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1113400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654369 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436396 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330883 100 $a20020709d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConsumer-resource dynamics$b[electronic resource] /$fWilliam W. Murdoch, Cheryl J. Briggs, and Roger M. Nisbet 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (479 p.) 225 0 $aMonographs in Population Biology ;$v36 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00658-X 311 0 $a0-691-00657-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [425]-449) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tCHAPTER ONE. Introduction --$tCHAPTER TWO. Population Dynamics: Observations and Basic Concepts --$tCHAPTER THREE. Simple Models in Continuous Time --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Simple Models in Discrete Time --$tCHAPTER FIVE. An Introduction to Models with Stage Structure --$tCHAPTER SIX. Dynamical Effects of Parasitoid Lifestyles --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Competition between Consumer Species --$tCHAPTER NINE. Implications for Biological Control --$tCHAPTER TEN. Dynamical Effects of Spatial Processes --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Synthesis and Integration across Systems --$tCHAPTER TWELVE. Concluding Remarks --$tLiterature Cited --$tIndex --$tBack matter 330 $aDespite often violent fluctuations in nature, species extinction is rare. California red scale, a potentially devastating pest of citrus, has been suppressed for fifty years in California to extremely low yet stable densities by its controlling parasitoid. Some larch budmoth populations undergo extreme cycles; others never cycle. In Consumer-Resource Dynamics, William Murdoch, Cherie Briggs, and Roger Nisbet use these and numerous other biological examples to lay the groundwork for a unifying theory applicable to predator-prey, parasitoid-host, and other consumer-resource interactions. Throughout, the focus is on how the properties of real organisms affect population dynamics. The core of the book synthesizes and extends the authors' own models involving insect parasitoids and their hosts, and explores in depth how consumer species compete for a dynamic resource. The emerging general consumer-resource theory accounts for how consumers respond to differences among individuals in the resource population. From here the authors move to other models of consumer-resource dynamics and population dynamics in general. Consideration of empirical examples, key concepts, and a necessary review of simple models is followed by examination of spatial processes affecting dynamics, and of implications for biological control of pest organisms. The book establishes the coherence and broad applicability of consumer-resource theory and connects it to single-species dynamics. It closes by stressing the theory's value as a hierarchy of models that allows both generality and testability in the field. 410 0$aMonographs in Population Biology 606 $aPopulation biology$xMathematical models 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopulation biology$xMathematical models. 676 $a577.8/8 700 $aMurdoch$b William W$0351587 701 $aBriggs$b Cheryl J.$f1963-$0772158 701 $aNisbet$b R. M$01042372 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462599303321 996 $aConsumer-resource dynamics$92466569 997 $aUNINA