| Autore |
Gatto Marino
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (292 pages)
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| Disciplina |
333.95
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| Soggetto topico |
Ecosystem management
Mathematical models
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| ISBN |
3-031-09480-8
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I Species and Populations Threatened by Extinction -- 1 Threatened Biodiversity -- 1.1 What is Biodiversity? -- 1.2 Configuration and Distribution of Biodiversity -- 1.3 The Loss of Biodiversity -- 1.4 Causes of Threat and Extinction -- 1.5 The Value of Biodiversity -- 1.6 Preserving Biodiversity -- References -- 2 The Risk of Extinction: Allee Effect and Genetic Deterioration -- 2.1 Demographic Phenomena in Populations Threatened by Extinction -- 2.2 A Brief Recapitulation of Basic Population Dynamics -- 2.3 Depensation Phenomena and the Allee effect -- 2.4 Simple Dynamic Models of the Allee Effect -- 2.5 Genetic Deterioration: Basics -- 2.5.1 Cell Structure and DNA -- 2.5.2 Cell Cycles and Reproduction -- 2.5.3 Genetic Variability -- 2.6 The Hardy-Weinberg Law -- 2.7 Genetic Drift and Wright's Formula -- 2.8 Effects of Genetic Drift on Population Dynamics -- References -- 3 Extinction Risk Analysis: Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity -- 3.1 Population Fluctuations -- 3.2 The Different Types of Stochasticity -- 3.3 Individual Fitness and Models of Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity -- 3.4 Risk Analysis for Populations Subject to Demographic Stochasticity Only -- 3.4.1 Demographic Stochasticity in Malthusian Populations -- 3.4.2 Demographic Stochasticity in Density-Dependent Populations -- 3.5 Risk Analysis for Populations Subject to Environmental Stochasticity Only -- 3.5.1 Environmental Stochasticity in Malthusian Population -- 3.5.2 Estimating the Risk of Extinction -- 3.5.3 Environmental Stochasticity in Density-Dependent Populations -- 3.6 Extinction Vortices, Population Viability Analyses, IUCN Risk Categories -- References -- 4 Problems on the Analysis of Extinction Risk -- References -- Part II Populations in Spatially Explicit Landscapes.
5 Movement of Organisms and the Dynamics of Populations in Space -- 5.1 The Diffusion Process -- 5.2 Diffusion in an Infinite Domain -- 5.3 Diffusion in a Finite Habitat -- 5.4 Demographic Increase and Diffusion -- 5.4.1 Malthusian Growth and Dispersal in an Infinite Habitat -- 5.4.2 Malthusian Growth and Diffusion in a Finite Habitat with an Absorbing Barrier -- 5.4.3 Diffusion and Density-Dependent Population Growth -- References -- 6 Habitat Fragmentation and Destruction: The Dynamics of Metapopulations -- 6.1 Metapopulations and Habitat Loss -- 6.2 Different Modelling Approaches to the Study of Metapopulations -- 6.3 Spatially Implicit Boolean Models -- 6.3.1 The Mainland-Island Model -- 6.3.2 The Model by ch6Levins69 -- 6.4 The Effects of Habitat Destruction and Environmental Disasters -- 6.5 A Spatially Explicit Boolean Model -- References -- 7 Problems on Spatial Ecology -- References -- Part III Sustainability of Biomass Harvesting and Its Management -- 8 The Management of Natural Populations Harvesting -- 8.1 Renewable Resources -- 8.2 Dynamics of a Harvested Population -- 8.3 Effects of Some Regulation Policies -- 8.4 The Problem of Maximum Sustainable Yield -- 8.5 The Bio-Economic Viewpoint -- 8.6 Harvesting Populations with Age and Size Structure -- 8.6.1 Optimal Rotation Period of a Renewable Resource and the Problem of Discounting -- 8.6.2 Managing the Harvest of Fish Populations with Constant Recruitment -- References -- 9 Problems on the Management of Renewable Resource Harvesting -- References -- Part IV Parasite and Disease Ecology -- 10 Ecology of Parasites and Infectious Diseases -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Dynamics of Diseases Caused by Microparasites -- 10.2.1 Directly Transmitted Diseases -- 10.3 Water-Borne Diseases -- 10.4 Vector-Borne Diseases -- 10.5 Dynamics of Diseases Caused by Macroparasites.
10.6 Host-Parasitoid Dynamics -- References -- 11 Problems on the Ecology of Parasites and Disease -- References -- Index -- Species Index -- Author Index.
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Ecosystem conservation and management : models and application / / Marino Gatto and Renato Casagrandi
