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Ecological orbits [[electronic resource] ] : how planets move and populations grow / / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan
| Ecological orbits [[electronic resource] ] : how planets move and populations grow / / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan |
| Autore | Ginzburg Lev R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina | 577.8/8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ColyvanMark |
| Soggetto topico |
Population biology
Ecology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-60256-800-6
1-280-53423-0 9786610534234 0-19-803754-6 1-4237-2031-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 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 7.1 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465451603321 |
Ginzburg Lev R
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ecological orbits [[electronic resource] ] : how planets move and populations grow / / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan
| Ecological orbits [[electronic resource] ] : how planets move and populations grow / / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan |
| Autore | Ginzburg Lev R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | xv, 166 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 577.8/8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ColyvanMark |
| Soggetto topico |
Population biology
Ecology |
| ISBN |
9780198037545
0198037546 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795850303321 |
|
Ginzburg Lev R
|
||
| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Ecological orbits [[electronic resource] ] : how planets move and populations grow / / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan
| Ecological orbits [[electronic resource] ] : how planets move and populations grow / / Lev Ginzburg, Mark Colyvan |
| Autore | Ginzburg Lev R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | xv, 166 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 577.8/8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ColyvanMark |
| Soggetto topico |
Population biology
Ecology |
| ISBN |
9780198037545
0198037546 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824419803321 |
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Ginzburg Lev R
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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