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200 10$aEcological orbits$b[electronic resource] $ehow planets move and populations grow /$fLev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004
215   $a1 online resource (183 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-516816-X 
311   $a0-19-979015-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index.
327   $aContents; 1 On Earth as It Is in the Heavens; 1.1 How Planets Move; 1.2 How Populations Grow; 1.3 Metaphors and the Language of Science; 1.4 Inertial Population Growth; 2 Does Ecology Have Laws?; 2.1 Ecological Allometries; 2.2 Kepler's Laws; 2.3 What Is a Law of Nature?; 2.4 Laws in Ecology; 3 Equilibrium and Accelerated Death; 3.1 Accelerated Death; 3.2 Galileo and Falling Bodies; 3.3 The Slobodkin Experiment; 3.4 Falling Bodies and Dying Populations; 3.5 The Meaning of Abundance Equilibrium; 3.6 The Damuth Allometry; 3.7 A Harder Question; 4 The Maternal Effect Hypothesis
327   $a4.1 Inertial Growth and the Maternal Effect4.2 The Missing Periods; 4.3 The Calder Allometry; 4.4 The Eigenperiod Hypothesis; 4.5 What Can Be Done in the Laboratory; 5 Predator-Prey Interactions and the Period of Cycling; 5.1 An Alternative Limit Myth; 5.2 Prey-Dependent versus Ratio-Dependent Models; 5.3 The Fallacy of Instantism; 5.4 Why Period Travels Bottom Up; 5.5 Competing Views on Causes and Cyclicity; 6 Inertial Growth; 6.1 The Implicit Inertial-Growth Model; 6.2 Parametric Specification; 6.3 Malthusian Invariancy; 6.4 What Is and What Is Not Analogous; 7 Practical Consequences
327   $a7.1 Theoretical and Applied Ecology7.2 Managing Inertial Populations; 7.3 Rates of Evolution; 7.4 Risk Analysis; 7.5 The Moral; 8 Shadows on the Wall; 8.1 Plato's Cave; 8.2 Evidence and Aesthetics; 8.3 Overfitting; 8.4 A Simplified Picture of Population Ecology; Appendix A: Notes and Further Reading; Appendix B: Essential Features of the Maternal Effect Model; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Z
330 8 $aProposes a fresh approach to population biology and ecology. This book proposes and develops an inertial view of population growth, taking note of acceleration, or rate of change of the growth rate between consecutive generations. It is useful for population biologists, ecological modellers, and theoretical biologists and philosophers of science.
606   $aPopulation biology
606   $aEcology
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aPopulation biology.
615  0$aEcology.
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