Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community write by Vadim Sidorovich. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Analysis of vertebrate predator-prey community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph is about predation in vertebrate animal community. The studies were done in the seminatural terrains with transitional mixed forest within the European forest zone in Belarus. The result part was organised as a top-down flow: First, the community characteristics related to predators were estimated. I presented data on predator species richness, population density and biomass with special attention paid to the changes in predator species diversity occurred during the last two centuries and particularly in connection with the American mink and raccoon dog naturalization. Then, the main features of predator food niches were given, and the structure of various predator guilds and size structure in predators were analysed. The next part of the monograph was devoted to examining of community-important factors acting in semi-natural terrains. Such factors affected either the whole community or its marked fragment. The last quite a large part of the monograph consisted of many chapters which present more or less essential results on different predator species, and stresses hot questions of their population ecology.
Predation in Vertebrate Communities
Predation in Vertebrate Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predation in Vertebrate Communities write by Bogumila Jedrzejewska. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Predation in Vertebrate Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated ecologists. This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of interrelationships, and shows them against the background of their biotic and abiotic settings. It is based on long-term research conducted in the best preserved woodland of Europe's temperate zone. The role of predation, whether limiting or regulating prey (ungulate, rodent, shrew, bird, and amphibian) populations, is quantified and compared to parts played by other factors: climate, food resources for prey, and availability of other potential resources for predators.
Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions write by Pedro Barbosa. This book was released on 2005-08-11. Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.
Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities. (MPB-9), Volume 9
Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities. (MPB-9), Volume 9 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities. (MPB-9), Volume 9 write by Michael E. Gilpin. This book was released on 2020-03-31. Group Selection in Predator-Prey Communities. (MPB-9), Volume 9 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many animals regulate their population density by patterns of behavior that would be easy to explain if the forces of natural selection acted to optimize group properties. But Darwinian selection acts on individuals, not groups, and most simple theories have shown group selection to be too slow ever to oppose individual selection successfully. In this book Michael Gilpin presents a model, based on predator-prey dynamics, wherein nonlinear effects are important, so that small advantages to the selfish individual are nonlinearly amplified into disaster for his group. The result is that group selection can be rapid and powerful. Of course many instances of apparent group selection can be explained by kin selection; in other cases, close examination reveals that seemingly altruistic behavior directly benefits the individual genotype as well as the group. The value of the monograph is that it provides a robust model in which group selection, pure and unadulterated, can be seen to work.
Predator-Prey Ecology
Predator-Prey Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predator-Prey Ecology write by DENNIS L.. BOUTIN MURRAY (DR STAN.). This book was released on 2014-09-26. Predator-Prey Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
