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Preface.. Acknowledgments.. Chapter 1.. Projection From a Life Table.. Introduction.. Life Tables.. Population Projection.. Problems.. BASIC Program.. Chapter 2.. Additional Ways of Combining Survival and Fecundity.. Introduction.. Net Reproductive Rate per Generation.. Age of Mothers Distribution.. Derivation of the Euler Equation.. The Newton-Raphson Method.. Calculating r from Generation Time.. The Stable-Age Distribution.. The Reproductive-Value Distribution.. Notes on Birth and Survival Rates.. Birth-Flow Populations.. Problems with Time Intervals.. Use of r in Analysis of Life Histories.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 3.. Descriptive Statistics of Life Tables.. Introduction.. Confidence Limits.. Estimating Survival.. Estimating Fecundity.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 4.. Life Cycle Graphs.. Introduction.. The Euler Equation.. Graph Analysis.. The Stable-Age Distribution.. The Reproductive Value.. Other Ways of Drawing Graphs.. The Problem of Self Loops.. Analysis with Age Frequency Data.. General Comments.. Problems.. Chapter 5.. The Leslie Matrix.. Introduction.. Graph to Matrix Notation.. The Stable-Age Distribution.. The Reproductive-Value Function.. Birth-Pulse Matrix Notation.. Birth-Flow Matrix Notation.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 6.. Transient Behavior in Population Growth.. Introduction.. Oscillations and Convergence. The Compleat Projection Equation.. Problems.. Chapter 7.. Sensitivity Analysis.. Introduction.. Sensitivity and Elasticity.. Sensitivity Analysis Using a Life Cycle Graph.. Sensitivity Analysis Using a Transition Matrix.. General Comments.. Problems.. Chapter 8.. Stage-Structured Demography.. Introduction.. Comparison of Age- and Stage-Structure: Medflies.. Plants with Seed Banks.. Sea Turtle Demography.. General Comments.. Problems

Chapter 9.. Size-Structured Demography.. Introduction.. Analysis with All Transitions Estimated.. Analysis with Assumed to Equal 1.0.. Analysis with Fixed Recruitment.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 10.. Confidence Intervals for  Introduction.. Demographic Stochasticity.. Temporal Stochasticity.. Problems.. BASIC Program.. Chapter 11.. Growth Functions for Individuals.. Introduction.. Fixed Time Intervals.. Variable Time Intervals.. Other Growth Models.. Models with Seasonal Components.. Growth Models and the Allometry of Reproduction.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 12.. Functions Describing Survival.. Introduction.. Curves with Simple Shapes.. Curves with Inflections: The Richards Function.. Curves with Inflections: The Siler Model.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 13.. The Size Structure of Populations.. Introduction.. Simulation of Size-Frequency Distributions.. Separation of Distributions into Component Parts.. Survival Estimation from Size Structure.. Survival Estimation from a Size-Transition Matrix.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Chapter 14.. Macroparameters.. Introduction.. Model Development.. Applications of Macroparameter Analysis.. General Comments.. Problems.. BASIC Programs.. Bibliography.. Index

The analysis of animal and plant life cycles is central to the management and conservation of species. Furthermore, any understanding of the evolution of life history characteristics depends on traits such as life span, schedules of births and death, and growth and survival estimates. Plant and Animal Populations is a bridge from introductory ecology to both applied and theoretical demography. Emphasis is on the analysis of population data taken from a wide variety of organisms. Examples come from terrestrial and aquatic plants and also from animals found in equatorial rain forests to the arctic tundra. The computer programs provided are written in BASIC and include tools for population projection, matrix analysis using both sensitivity and elasticity, individual growth and survival models, and analysis of size-frequency distributions. Certain to be widely used both as a text and as a reference, Plant and Animal Populations addresses the ever-increasing challenges of documenting population demographic changes. Inglés