LEADER 03664nam 22005414a 450 001 9910966104503321 005 20251116153444.0 010 0 $a9780198037545 010 0 $a0198037546 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7036370 035 $a(CKB)24235116200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051977 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051977 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10103536 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53423 035 $a(OCoLC)922952581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7036370 035 $a(OCoLC)824165896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279540 035 $a(OCoLC)826490517 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235116200041 100 $a20030328d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEcological orbits $ehow planets move and populations grow /$fLev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $axv, 166 p. $cill 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- 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 -- 4.1 Inertial Growth and the Maternal Effect -- 4.2 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 -- 7.1 Theoretical and Applied Ecology -- 7.2 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 $aPreface1. On Earth as it is in the Heavens2. Does Ecology Have Laws?3. Equilibrium and Accelerated Death4. The Maternal E_ect Hypothesis5. Predator-Prey Interactions and the Period of Cycling6. Inertial Growth7. Practical Consequences8. Shadows on the WallA Notes and Further ReadingB Essential Features of the Maternal Effect ModelC AppreciationsBibliographyIndex. 606 $aPopulation biology 606 $aEcology 615 0$aPopulation biology. 615 0$aEcology. 676 $a577.8/8 700 $aGinzburg$b Lev R$0486983 701 $aColyvan$b Mark$0734259 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910966104503321 996 $aEcological orbits$91449121 997 $aUNINA